# Fractures at American Blanching Company
> OSHA SIR `20181010612` · 10/15/2018 · FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
## 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:** Bags, sacks
## Employer
- **Name:** American Blanching Company
- **Location:** 155 Rip Wiley Road, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, 31750
- **NAICS:** 311911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually stuffing a tote liner inside the torn opening of a sack full of peanuts that was positioned on a pallet on the ground when another sack stacked on top of the sack the employee was stuffing fell on and pinned him against the ground. He sustained a right ankle fracture and lumbar (L5) vertebrae fracture.

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