# Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia at Sessler Environmental Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065124` · 6/14/2022 · MACEDON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
## 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:** Sessler Environmental Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1330 Research Forest, MACEDON, NEW YORK, 14502
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a forklift to place material on the third tier of a warehouse rack when the forklift struck a ceiling beam and the resulting force discharged the employee from the forklift. The forklift then tipped over onto the employee, pinning him until other employees could extricate him. The employee suffered blunt force trauma to the spine, dislocation of vertebrae, and incomplete paralysis of the torso and lower limbs.

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