# Fractures at BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015041879` · 4/9/2015 · UNIVERSITY PARK, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
- **Location:** 8085 Cooper Creek Blvd, UNIVERSITY PARK, FLORIDA, 34201
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening the back of a trailer during product unloading when boxes from a pallet that shifted during transport fell on him. The employee sustained a fractured femur and a laceration to the head. The employee was subsequently hospitalized.

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