# Fractures at Douglas Products
> OSHA SIR `20201110394` · 11/2/2020 · LIBERTY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Douglas Products
- **Location:** 1550 E. Old 210 Highway, LIBERTY, MISSOURI, 64068
- **NAICS:** 325320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was kneeling on the floor to remove a castor off of the bottom of the 2.5 gallon capping machine. The machine was sitting on a pallet about to be picked up by a forklift. As the forklift lifted the machine, the machine tilted over and fell onto the employee. The employee sustained a broken ankle, a broken foot, and a fractured vertebra.

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