# Fractures at Columbia Recycling Corp
> OSHA SIR `2017010837` · 1/26/2017 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Columbia Recycling Corp
- **Location:** 1001 Chattanooga Ave., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a forklift moving bales of carpet. As the employee was moving the bales, the carpet in the back row shifted, causing the bales in the front to fall. The employee jumped off the forklift and as he was running a bale hit him from behind. The employee sustained a fractured right leg, a fractured left fibula, a fractured L3 vertebra, and foreign bodies in left ankle.

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