# Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders  unspecified at Copart Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024043539` · 4/23/2024 · BRIDGETON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Automobile
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Copart Inc
- **Location:** 13033 Taussig Avenue, BRIDGETON, MISSOURI, 63044
- **NAICS:** 423110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A tow truck driver was standing on a tool box on the top deck of his four-car tow truck. While releasing a ratchet strap off the passenger tire of a vehicle, the winch slipped and the tire rolled into the back of his head and onto the lower deck. He sustained facial lacerations and other head injuries, as well as two cracked vertebrae.

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