# Fractures at Lowe's Home Improvement
> OSHA SIR `2023087975` · 8/29/2023 · FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Improvement
- **Location:** 90 Price Parkway, FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK, 11735
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a 10-foot PVC pipe in the bullpen where material is stored. The employee cut one of the straps securing PVC pipes on a pallet at the bottom of a stack of pallets. Other pallets that were stacked on top then fell on the employee. The employee suffered a fractured pelvis and other injuries.

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