# Fractures at Schefers Roofing Company
> OSHA SIR `20181111673` · 11/12/2018 · BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **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:** Schefers Roofing Company
- **Location:** 700 SE 5th Street, BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72712
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was directing a large articulating forklift that was moving some insulation off a flatbed truck. Two bales of insulation were stacked vertically on the forklift when the top bale slipped off, falling onto an employee and breaking the employee's hip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*