# Fractures at Primex Plastics Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025077010` · 7/18/2025 · OAKWOOD, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and machine cabin parts  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Primex Plastics Corporation
- **Location:** 3435 Old Oakwood Road, OAKWOOD, GEORGIA, 30566
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using straps to secure a load inside a transport trailer. The employee was standing on a stack of finished goods that was three pallets high. Each pallet was 16 inches high. He was walking from the stack of three pallets onto a stack of two pallets when he lost his balance and fell onto another stack of finished goods (that was two pallets high) and then landed on the floor of the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs.

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