# Fractures at Commercial Appliance Repair, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019076856` · 7/8/2019 · FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Packages, parcels
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Commercial Appliance Repair, Inc.
- **Location:** 1880 Metro Parkway, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33906
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 12:30 p.m. on July 8, 2019, an employee was helping supervise the unloading of a truck with a forklift. A package tilted over while the forklift was moving and fell onto the employee. He was hospitalized to treat a head injury (requiring 18 stitches) and a fractured vertebra.

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