# Fractures at Reefer Express, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161110778` · 11/16/2016 · GARDEN CITY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Reefer Express, LLC
- **Location:** Georgia Port Authority, GARDEN CITY, GEORGIA, 31408
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing a refrigerated container with a hose and signaled the driver to drive away. The water hose became stuck on the container as the driver pulled away. It wrapped around the employee's foot and pulled him off the dock to the ground, fracturing his back vertebra.

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