# Fractures at Kasai North America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019022003` · 2/22/2019 · TALLADEGA, ALABAMA
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Kasai North America, Inc.
- **Location:** 50 Homer Drvie, TALLADEGA, ALABAMA, 35160
- **NAICS:** 441310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A material handler was picking components in the receiving storage area between rows C & D on the south end of the storage area. As the material handler was scanning and loading components onto a cart, a forklift operator was loading components onto the top level rack in row E, adjacent to where the material handler was picking parts. While loading the parts onto the rack, the pallet that was in row D in the same location began to shift and eventually fell from the top level onto the material handler causing fractures to the employee's neck and spine.

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