# Fractures at Whirlpool Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023043709` · 4/25/2023 · FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Whirlpool Corporation
- **Location:** 88 Currant Rd, FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS, 02720
- **NAICS:** 335211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a gantry crane to move pallets of sheet metal when the bottom of the wooden pallet released from the crane and swung toward the employee. The employee was struck on the left leg and sustained a fracture.

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