# Fractures at Rise Baking Company, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2023032387` · 3/16/2023 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Rise Baking Company, LLC.
- **Location:** 800 South 40th Street, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72762
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to put trash in a compactor. A nearby pallet started leaning; 40-pound boxes of chocolate ingredients fell off it and struck the employee, knocking him against a wall. He suffered a broken left collarbone and a broken lower-back vertebra. He was hospitalized.

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