# Fractures at NATIONAL BEEF LEATHERS
> OSHA SIR `20191111676` · 11/9/2019 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** NATIONAL BEEF LEATHERS
- **Location:** 205 FLORENCE ROAD, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64504
- **NAICS:** 316110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a stacking machine. The cart moved and struck the employee, who fell onto a stop plate and suffered a broken lower-back vertebra.

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