# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Newly Weds Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098950` · 9/25/2024 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Newly Weds Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 4140 West Fullerton Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee (employee 1) was sitting on a stack of wooden pallets waiting for his shift to start with a stack of plastic pallets next to him. Another employee (employee 2) used a forklift to lift the stack of pallets next to employee 1, and three loose pallets slid off the forklift and struck employee 1 in the head, resulting in lacerations to the left side of his head.

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