# Fractures at United Rentals Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2018054348` · 5/4/2018 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** United Rentals Incorporated
- **Location:** 3051 Central Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64108
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a lift onto a flatbed truck when he became pinned by the lift's articulating boom, suffering a left arm fracture, right wrist fracture, scalp laceration, and neck and lower back vertebrae fractures.

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