# Fractures at ADUSA Distribution, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025076499` · 7/7/2025 · MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cardboard
## Employer
- **Name:** ADUSA Distribution, LLC
- **Location:** 1315 Tolland Turnpike, MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT, 06042
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was at ground level, using a reach tool to pull down a loose cardboard slip sheet from a fourth level rack slot. Upon releasing the slip sheet, it fell and depressed the accelerator of an electric utility cart, causing the cart to begin to drive away and strike the corner of the racking. The employee's lower left arm was caught between the cart and the racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractures to their radius and ulna, and required surgery.

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