# Fractures at Veritiv Operating Company
> OSHA SIR `2019021548` · 2/11/2019 · NORCROSS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Veritiv Operating Company
- **Location:** 6600 Governor's Lake Parkway, NORCROSS, GEORGIA, 30071
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a forklift loading/unloading trailers when the trailer he was on pulled away from the dock door. The forklift with the employee strapped in fell four feet and landed upright. The employee suffered a fractured vertebra.

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