# Fractures at Port Newark Container Terminal
> OSHA SIR `2020054951` · 5/28/2020 · NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
- **Source:** Automobile
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Port Newark Container Terminal
- **Location:** 241 Calcutta St, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 07114
- **NAICS:** 541614
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a checker vehicle when it collided with a truck that was backing up. The employee suffered a right superior articulating facet fracture of the C6 vertebra, a fracture of the left posterior tubercle at the C5 vertebra, a grade IV blunt cerebrovascular injury with distal reconstitution, abrasions to the left ear and left elbow, and decreased sensation in the right thumb and index finger.

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