# Fractures at Lowe's Garden Center
> OSHA SIR `2025043112` · 4/3/2025 · PALATKA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Multiple building materials
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving, racks
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Garden Center
- **Location:** 500 Florida 19, PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking by a stack of foam boards stacked on a shelf with a PVC pipe on top of the stack. The PVC pipe and foam boards fell from the rack and crushed him. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his neck, sternum, and shoulder.

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