# Fractures at Siemens Industry Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032792` · 3/26/2020 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Floor irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Siemens Industry Inc.
- **Location:** 8110 Woodland Center Blvd, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33614
- **NAICS:** 541710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bringing a piece of equipment into a warehouse on a pallet jack. As he entered the warehouse, the pallet jack hit a hump in the floor and tipped over, breaking vertebrae in the employee's back.

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