# Fractures at R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181212856` · 12/14/2018 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
- **Location:** 212 E Conde St., JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53546
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a forklift onto a semi-trailer positioned at a loading dock at the employer's freight terminal. The semi-truck pulled away from the loading dock as the forklift was entering the trailer. The forklift fell to the ground between the back of the trailer and the loading dock and the forklift operator sustained fractured vertebrae.

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