# Fractures at Shasta Beverages, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010984` · 1/31/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Shasta Beverages, Inc.
- **Location:** 7333 Major Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77061
- **NAICS:** 312111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the inside of a palletizer when the machine cycled, resulting in a fracture to their left leg. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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