# Fractures at Maverick Transportation
> OSHA SIR `2023032084` · 3/7/2023 · LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Bungee cords
## Employer
- **Name:** Maverick Transportation
- **Location:** 185 Devereaux Drive, LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15650
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a tarp to a flat bed trailer using a bungee strap. The strap broke causing the employee to fall from the trailer to the ground. The employee struck his head on the ground and sustained a skull fracture.

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