# Fractures at Aramark Uniform Services
> OSHA SIR `20241010180` · 10/31/2024 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
- **Secondary source:** Clothes washers, dryers
## Employer
- **Name:** Aramark Uniform Services
- **Location:** 215 18th Avenue, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61104
- **NAICS:** 812332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an industrial dryer when the dryer door fell due to a defective air blocking valve that normally holds the door in place. The employee was struck in the neck and shoulder by the dryer door and sustained fractures to his C1 and C3 vertebrae, a spinal compression at the C2 vertebra, and a bruised right shoulder.

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