# Fractures at Lakeshore Recycling Systems, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021086796` · 8/11/2021 · SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lakeshore Recycling Systems, LLC
- **Location:** Madison Prairie Landfill, SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN, 53590
- **NAICS:** 562119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening the hinged doors on the back of a truck when a cardboard drum fell and struck the employee in the head, resulting in two fractured vertebrae.

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