# Fractures at Rush Health Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181212944` · 12/18/2018 · MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Rush Health Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 1314 19th Ave., MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, 39301
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading material that was stacked on rolling pallets on the truck. When the employee removed the tie-down strap, the rolling cart struck him and knocked him off the truck and he fell four feet to the pavement below. The employee was hospitalized for a subdermal hematoma to the head, lacerations, fractured ribs and a subdermal hematoma to the abdomen.

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