# Fractures at National Sugar Marketing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181212467` · 12/5/2018 · BENSENVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bags, sacks
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** National Sugar Marketing, Inc.
- **Location:** 591 Supreme Drive, BENSENVILLE, ILLINOIS, 60106
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stocking 50-pound bags of sugar. A load had shifted during transport in the rail car; the pallet collapsed and the load fell over. The employee was struck by a bag and suffered a fractured hip and nose.

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