# Fractures at AUTO TIRE & PARTS COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20221211030` · 12/20/2022 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface
- **Source:** Floor irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** AUTO TIRE & PARTS COMPANY
- **Location:** 212 S Kingshighway, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, 63703
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a delivery to a customer when he tripped on a four-inch rise on the floor. He fell forward into a forklift and sustained a four-and-a-half-inch laceration to the forehead and a neck vertebra fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

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