# Fractures at R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065638` · 6/24/2024 · OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
- **Secondary source:** Non-riding pallet jack
## Employer
- **Name:** R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
- **Location:** 10850 W. 164th St., OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, 66221
- **NAICS:** 484122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pallet jack to unload freight on a residential street. As he maneuvered the palletized freight to the trailer's liftgate, the pallet jack slid and made him lose his balance. The employee fell approximately 4 feet from the liftgate to the asphalt pavement below and sustained broken bones in his back.

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