# Fractures at Southeastern Freight Lines
> OSHA SIR `20241211789` · 12/20/2024 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
- **Secondary source:** Strapping, bands
## Employer
- **Name:** Southeastern Freight Lines
- **Location:** 5619 Ave. A, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pallet jack to remove a pallet from the back of a trailer when the strap on the pallet broke. The momentum caused the employee to fall from the trailer to the ground, resulting in an L1 vertebra fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

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