# Fractures at Martin Brower, CO, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017088370` · 8/24/2017 · THOMASTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Martin Brower, CO, LLC.
- **Location:** 1099 Hwy 19, THOMASTON, GEORGIA, 30286
- **NAICS:** 722513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had loaded boxes of food items onto a truck lift gate and was lowering it when he fell approximately 4 feet off the gate to the ground. He suffered a hairline fracture to the left ear area and was hospitalized overnight.

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