# Fractures at Contract Freighters, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019011153` · 1/31/2019 · PLANT CITY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Contract Freighters, Inc.
- **Location:** C & S Grocery, PLANT CITY, FLORIDA, 33566
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening the rear door of his semi-trailer when pallets of freight fell down on top of him, fracturing his left-side pelvis and T-12 vertebra.

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