# Fractures at Birdsong Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024043618` · 4/25/2024 · BLAKELY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bags, sacks
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Birdsong Corporation
- **Location:** 198 North Bay Street, BLAKELY, GEORGIA, 39823
- **NAICS:** 115114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a tote bag of peanuts weighing approximately 1.1 tons from a higher level with a forklift when the tote tilted over and became unstable. He got out of the forklift to inspect it when the tote fell over onto his leg, fracturing it.

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