# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Vollrath Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022053919` · 5/5/2022 · KIEL, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vollrath Company, LLC
- **Location:** 502 Hwy 67, KIEL, WISCONSIN, 53042
- **NAICS:** 333318
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 5, 2022, at 8:45 AM, an employee and a trainee were moving a coil of wire with a hoist/crane. The hoisting mechanism contacted a bundle of cardboard boxes on the top shelf of a pallet rack. The bundle of boxes fell to the floor hitting the employee on the back of the head and causing a concussion and fractured C7 vertebra.

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