# Fractures at ATOSA CATERING EQUIPMENT INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016076929` · 7/29/2016 · WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
## Employer
- **Name:** ATOSA CATERING EQUIPMENT INC.
- **Location:** 203 Flanders Rd, WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, 01581
- **NAICS:** 423740
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving two refrigerators with a pallet jack when the top refrigerator tipped over and landed on the employee. The employee suffered bruises and broken vertebrae.

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