# Fractures at WL Plastics
> OSHA SIR `2016087130` · 8/2/2016 · BOWIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** WL Plastics
- **Location:** 1110 Old Wise Rd, BOWIE, TEXAS, 76230
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was supervising the loading of a coil onto a truck from the designated safe zone when the 500-foot, 4-inch coil weighing approximately 1,250 pounds began to slip off the spool that was being lifted by a forklift. The employee tried to push the coil back onto the spool when the coil struck him, knocking him to the ground and cracking his vertebrae.

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