# Fractures at Americold Logistics, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2023032845` · 3/30/2023 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **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:** Americold Logistics, LLC.
- **Location:** 502 North Broadway, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 541614
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A lift truck operator was unstacking pallets of boxes in the middle portion of a railcar by hand in order to be able to enter the railcar with a forklift and remove the remaining pallets on the left and right sides of the railcar. A pallet on the right side of the railcar had shifted during transportation. A box fell from this pallet onto the employee resulting in possible fractures to their neck and right leg.

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