# Fractures at Dollar Tree
> OSHA SIR `20191111767` · 11/12/2019 · WARRENSBURG, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Dollar Tree
- **Location:** 304 Northeast 200th, WARRENSBURG, MISSOURI, 64093
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sitting on a maintenance sweeper scrubber, training another employee on a reach truck, when the employee was struck by a pallet that was released from the pallet return. The injured employee suffered a skull fracture.

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