# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries at McKee Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024054772` · 5/31/2024 · GENTRY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and neck
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** McKee Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 555 McKee Drive, GENTRY, ARKANSAS, 72734
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adding cases of product onto a conveyor from a wooden float board (a flat laminated board approximately 4 feet by 4 feet) that was on top of a half pallet on the floor. The employee was removing an empty float board from the half pallet when they tripped on the half pallet and fell against the conveyor. Their head struck a mounting bracket (about 3 inches off the floor) that mounts a piece of equipment associated with the conveyor to the floor. The employee sustained an intracerebral hemorrhage, a laceration to the forehead requiring 17 stitches, a fractured nose, and multiple neck fractures.

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