# Fractures at Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024064908` · 6/4/2024 · CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the chest  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Utility poles
## Employer
- **Name:** Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
- **Location:** 2265 Clements Ferry Road, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 29492
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a yard truck to transport an empty export container back to the ship to be loaded. While driving through the container yard, the yard truck went off the road and struck the concrete base of a light post. The employee sustained a laceration to his lip and a contusion and closed fracture to his sternum.

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