# Fractures at Shield Casework LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043650` · 4/16/2018 · NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Shield Casework LLC
- **Location:** 1120 Ellerbrook Rd, NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64116
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were unloading a box from the back of a truck. One employee was spotting and the other was on the forklift. The box became unstable and fell off the forklift striking the spotter as it fell. The box hit him in the hip area and pinned him underneath. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

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