# Fractures at U. S. Dept. of Navy
> OSHA SIR `20191010504` · 10/8/2019 · CHERRY POINT, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** U. S. Dept. of Navy
- **Location:** CODE 6.5.1 PSC Box 8021, CHERRY POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, 28533
- **NAICS:** 928120
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on an automatic stacker with two co-workers. He was under the stacker when it suddenly dropped from an undetermined height and caught his shoulder and knee, crushing them and causing compound fractures.

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