# Fractures at M & M TRANSPORT SERVICES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017076416` · 7/12/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** M & M TRANSPORT SERVICES, INC.
- **Location:** 2815 N Western Ave, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60618
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was moving a pallet of freight with a pallet jack onto the lift gate. It began raining and the employee slipped and lost control of the pallet jack causing one of the plastic totes on the pallet to come off and strike the employee resulting in rib fractures.

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