# Fractures at Foundry Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077001` · 7/12/2018 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bags, sacks
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Foundry Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 5017 S. 38th Street, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63116
- **NAICS:** 325188
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hand stacking pallets of bagged talc on a railroad car when the bags slid and fell on top of him.  He fractured his right arm and two vertebrae.

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