# Fractures at Big Tex Trailers
> OSHA SIR `20161211796` · 12/20/2016 · MADILL, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Tex Trailers
- **Location:** 1102 N. Industrial Rd., MADILL, OKLAHOMA, 73446
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A forklift was lifting a double stack of trailer fenders when the top pallet of the stack fell onto the forklift. The pallet broke and trailer fenders fell onto the injured employee, who was standing nearby supervising the operation. The employee sustained a broken nose and two broken ribs, requiring hospitalization.

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