# Fractures at ACCELERATED COURIER, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024065133` · 6/11/2024 · FOREST PARK, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ACCELERATED COURIER, INC.
- **Location:** 105 Southfield Parkway, FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, 30297
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were loading and unloading a trailer. The injured worker was stacking boxes that came loose from a pallet on the trailer onto an empty one just outside the trailer entrance. Another pallet of freight that contained boxes of merchandise fell on top of him. The employee sustained five broken ribs and a laceration above the eye.

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