# Fractures at Stop & Shop
> OSHA SIR `20181111289` · 11/1/2018 · BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Stop & Shop
- **Location:** 37 Enon Street, BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, 01915
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a pallet on the floor in the produce receiving department, tripped backwards over another pallet, and fell to the ground resulting in an open fracture to the right wrist.

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