# Concussions at Elva's Pallets
> OSHA SIR `2016010319` · 1/13/2016 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Elva's Pallets
- **Location:** 6055 W. Green Mountain, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78266
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was waiting on a truck to unload pallets.  A strap got stuck on the pallets, so he climbed up to dislodge it. He fell 15 to 20 feet backwards off the truck and hit his back and head, suffering a concussion. He was hospitalized.

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