# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Waste Management of West Virginia, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020010123` · 1/6/2020 · GASSAWAY, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management of West Virginia, Inc.
- **Location:** 915 Riverside Drive, GASSAWAY, WEST VIRGINIA, 26624
- **NAICS:** 562212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping an 8-yard rear-load container. A piece of furniture was caught between the scraper blade and the hopper seal. When the blade came down, it kicked the container off the truck and into the employee, who suffered bruising to the kidney, spleen, and liver, as well as possible fractures to ribs and/or vertebrae.

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