# Fractures and other injuries, unspecified at Plains Cotton Cooperative Association
> OSHA SIR `20161110586` · 11/10/2016 · ALTUS, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Plains Cotton Cooperative Association
- **Location:** 20284 East County Road 165, ALTUS, OKLAHOMA, 73522
- **NAICS:** 493130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was "locating" cotton bales (scanning bar codes) weighing 480 pounds when the bale(s) fell and struck him. He lost consciousness and sustained a broken leg, back injury, and laceration on top of his head from ear to ear. He required surgery.

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