# Fractures at William B Meyer, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025033006` · 3/31/2025 · WESTVILLE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** William B Meyer, Inc
- **Location:** 235 Harvard Ave, WESTVILLE, NEW JERSEY, 08093
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually moving a 75-pound skid (loaded with boxes) closer to the edge of a flatbed slider trailer to then load onto a forklift. They lost their balance and fell backward from the slider to the asphalt below. They fractured their left wrist and right thumb and injured their shoulder and forehead. The employee was hospitalized and received stitches above their left eyebrow and on their left wrist.

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