# Fractures at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2024109624` · 10/16/2024 · TOMAHAWK, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** N9090 County Highway E, TOMAHAWK, WISCONSIN, 54487
- **NAICS:** 322122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up cardboard debris from the floor below the cardboard recycle conveyor. One of the cardboard bales weighing approximately 1200 pounds fell from the conveyor and struck the employee, resulting in bilateral rib fractures, fractured vertebrae, and a laceration.

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