# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Mammoet USA South, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20181213167` · 12/24/2018 · POINT COMFORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mammoet USA South, Inc
- **Location:** 2159 FM 1593 S., POINT COMFORT, TEXAS, 77978
- **NAICS:** 423860
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside a shipping container, securing it for transport, when a crane component shifted and wedged the employee against a neighboring frame. The employee suffered lacerations to the liver and kidneys and a fractured lumbar vertebra.

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