# Fractures at Walmart Stores Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010333` · 1/10/2018 · POOLER, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart Stores Inc.
- **Location:** Pooler Sam's Club #4820, POOLER, GEORGIA, 31322
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using power lift equipment (forklift or scissor lift) to load wooden pallets on racks when a pallet fell on the employee's head. The employee suffered fractures in the neck and back and was hospitalized.

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