# Fractures at Cross Country Freight Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2024021026` · 2/2/2024 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack riding
## Employer
- **Name:** Cross Country Freight Solutions
- **Location:** 7010 Blue Parkway, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64129
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a long pallet to a lift gate with an electric pallet jack. While he was maneuvering the pallet jack out from under the skid, it hit him in the abdomen. He took a step back from the impact and then fell off the lift gate, landed on his right side, and hit his head. He suffered broken ribs.

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