# Fractures at FedEx Freight
> OSHA SIR `20181212604` · 12/8/2018 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Freight
- **Location:** 1850 E. Landstreet Rd., ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32824
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was scanning bills in the dock area, pallets that were on the forks of a forklift tipped over and fell on the employee. The employee sustained possible broken ribs.

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