# Fractures at Publix Super Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043491` · 4/22/2024 · SARASOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Non-riding pallet jack
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters structurally attached
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Super Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** Publix Super Market at The Landings, SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 34231
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a manual pallet jack to move a cardboard bale when they became pinned between the pallet jack and a dock railing. They sustained fractured vertebrae.

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