# Fractures at Gaines Express LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024032694` · 3/26/2024 · MARIETTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Tarps, liners, wraps
## Employer
- **Name:** Gaines Express LLC
- **Location:** 880 Ind. Park Dr, MARIETTA, GEORGIA, 30062
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 26, 2024 an employee was covering the cargo in his tractor trailer with a tarp when the tarp became unstable causing him to fall off the flatbed trailer. While falling his knee struck him in the face, and he sustained a fractured femur and jaw.

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