# Fractures at ELITE STRUCTURES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019021731` · 2/15/2019 · BYRON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** ELITE STRUCTURES, INC.
- **Location:** 3421 US Highway 41 N, BYRON, GEORGIA, 31008
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 15, 2019, a truck driver was unstrapping metal beams from a flat truck. A forklift on the opposite side of the truck lifted the beams and they fell onto the driver, breaking ribs and other bones. The employee was hospitalized.

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