# Fractures at Snyders Lance
> OSHA SIR `2017098837` · 9/14/2017 · COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Containers, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Snyders Lance
- **Location:** 900 8th St., COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, 31901
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading waste material from a portable holding bin when a steel container fell off a forklift and onto her leg, fracturing her femur.

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