# Fractures at Cardinal Logistics
> OSHA SIR `2017087512` · 8/7/2017 · LEWISVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Cardinal Logistics
- **Location:** 751 W. Main St., LEWISVILLE, TEXAS, 75067
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee came to pick up a stack of recycled cardboard bales from a customer when the top bale fell and struck the employee, who suffered a fractured hip and fractured L1 vertebra.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*