# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Market Street Recycling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022054081` · 5/10/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Market Street Recycling LLC
- **Location:** 8700 Market Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 331529
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A forklift operator was picking up a cylindrical container filled with brass shavings and dumping it into a container. The overflow was being swept up by the injured employee and put into a cardboard box. The cylinder rolled off the forklift forks and flipped over onto the injured employee resulting in broken bones in the back and a possible concussion.

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