# Fractures at O'Neale's Transport, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019099680` · 9/16/2019 · ST CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** O'Neale's Transport, Inc.
- **Location:** 1-A Wilfred Allick Container Port, ST CROIX, VIRGIN ISLANDS, 00820
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on top of a container while a spreader bar was being lowered. The bar swung forward, causing the employee to step back and fall approximately 9 feet off of the container and onto the dock. He broke his wrist and suffered a damaged vertebra.

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