# Fractures at Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022021560` · 2/17/2022 · PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation
- **Location:** 140 Industrial Drive, PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18640
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift and struck a support column in a warehouse. The employee hit their head on the steering wheel and was hospitalized with a fractured C6 vertebra.

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