# Fractures at Elkhorn Valley Packing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021098213` · 9/23/2021 · HARPER, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Animal carcass, roadkill
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Elkhorn Valley Packing LLC
- **Location:** 101 Central Street, HARPER, KANSAS, 67058
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting moving carcasses into a cooler. A 420-pound carcass fell off the southwest rail and broke the employee's left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

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