# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2024043043` · 4/7/2024 · CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Non-riding pallet jack
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 650 Garden Park Boulevard, CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY, 08002
- **NAICS:** 452210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a stack of pallets on a pallet jack into an empty trailer when the pallets on top of the stack fell off and struck them in the head. They sustained lacerations to the head and a sore neck. The employee was hospitalized.

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