# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at METFORM L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2019021310` · 2/5/2019 · SAVANNA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** METFORM L.L.C.
- **Location:** 2551 WACKER ROAD, SAVANNA, ILLINOIS, 60174
- **NAICS:** 332111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was assisting to load parts onto a sorting table. An attachment to the forklift tub is filled with parts that are dumped on the sorting table. The forklift operator had just rolled over half a tub onto the sorting table. When the employee was removing a rollover bar from the bin, it broke free and came out of the bin. The tub shifted on the forklift forks and fell over landing on the employee's shoulder, ribs and hip area. The employee sustained three broken ribs and a lumbar hernia.

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