# Concussions at Advance Stores Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087691` · 8/20/2024 · TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Brake assemblies
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Advance Stores Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Advance Auto Parts Store 8472, TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02780
- **NAICS:** 441310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to pick a caliper when another caliper fell and hit their head. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

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