# Fractures at American Homestar of Lancaster
> OSHA SIR `2020032059` · 3/3/2020 · LANCASTER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Walls
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Homestar of Lancaster
- **Location:** 800 N. I-35 East, LANCASTER, TEXAS, 75146
- **NAICS:** 321991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hoist to move a wall into place so it could be screwed down. While moving the wall into place, it bumped into an existing wall and was displaced from the hoist, falling onto the employee. The employee sustained a neck fracture.

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