# Fractures at Mercury Marine
> OSHA SIR `2018032886` · 3/24/2018 · FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, neck, and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Mercury Marine
- **Location:** 545 W. Pioneer Rd., FOND DU LAC, WISCONSIN, 54936
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing an electrical pallet jack loaded with parts baskets. While going through a doorway, the parts baskets caught the door frame and fell back onto the employee, who suffered fractures to the skull, cervical vertebrae, and ribs, as well as an ankle injury.

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