# Fractures at The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191111430` · 11/1/2019 · HAMPTON BAYS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Shopping cart, grocery carriage-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC
- **Location:** 194 W Montauk Hwy, HAMPTON BAYS, NEW YORK, 11946
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading crates of apples that weighed approximately 20 to 30 pounds when he fell and hit his head against the base of a shopping cart. He suffered a head laceration and two fractured vertebrae.

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