# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Blytheville Sheet Metal
> OSHA SIR `2022054332` · 5/18/2022 · MARKED TREE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Blytheville Sheet Metal
- **Location:** 514 Ash Street, MARKED TREE, ARKANSAS, 72365
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the forks of a forklift, about 10 to 15 feet above a concrete floor, hanging pipes on a cotton gin. He fell head first to the floor and suffered multiple brain bleeds, multiple skull and facial fractures, and a broken upper back. He was hospitalized.

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