# Fractures at Peterson Beckner Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171010451` · 10/31/2017 · POINT COMFORT, 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:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Peterson Beckner Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 201 Formosa Drive, POINT COMFORT, TEXAS, 77978
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were erecting a large tent. The first column bent was put in place using a forklift. Once the column bent was released from the forklift, the column bent fell and struck the injured employee who was on all fours resulting in non-displaced fractured lower vertebrae, broken ribs and head injuries.

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