# Fractures at Sam's Club
> OSHA SIR `20191011225` · 10/28/2019 · LADY LAKE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cabinets, cases-display, storage
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Sam's Club
- **Location:** 755 N Hwy 27/441, LADY LAKE, FLORIDA, 32159
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a receiving aisle doing merchandising work. At the same time, a forklift two aisles over was moving something when the forklift struck an item. The item fell onto a safe that was double stacked on a pallet. The safe then fell onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae.

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