# Fractures at NOVO Health Services
> OSHA SIR `2023087690` · 8/22/2023 · RAVENNA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Bags, sacks
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** NOVO Health Services
- **Location:** 650 ENTERPRISE PARKWAY, RAVENNA, OHIO, 44266
- **NAICS:** 812332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a push pole to move an overhead laundry bag along the automated conveyor system. The computer overfilled the bag with blankets and sheets, causing the 600-pound bag to rip. The bag and its contents fell and struck the employee. He sustained a vertebral fracture in his back and was hospitalized.

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