# Fractures at Preferred Meal Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020054712` · 5/21/2020 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Preferred Meal Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 4135 Birney Avenue, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18507
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was labeling palletized 20-pound boxes suspended on the forks of a forklift. The boxes fell on her, knocking her to the floor and breaking her femur.

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