# Fractures at Gerald Jones VW, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010408` · 1/12/2015 · MARTINEZ, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving
## Employer
- **Name:** Gerald Jones VW, Inc.
- **Location:** 4022 Washington Rd., MARTINEZ, GEORGIA, 30907
- **NAICS:** 441110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee retrieving parts from a shelf was struck in the head by a part weighing approximately 40 to 50 pounds when the bottom of the box it was stored in gave way. Employee sustained a compression fracture of the vertebrae.

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