# Fractures at AVERITT EXPRESS
> OSHA SIR `2023021512` · 2/16/2023 · VANCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple back regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Racks-garment and other
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** AVERITT EXPRESS
- **Location:** 1 Mercedes Dr, VANCE, ALABAMA, 35490
- **NAICS:** 488510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to offload a trailer that was backing up to a dock. As the employee opened the trailer doors, a 300- to 400-pound steel rack containing parts fell onto the employee, pinning him to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a pulmonary contusion to the right upper lobe and fractures to the T12, L1, and L2 vertebrae of the thoracic and lumbar spine.

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