# Fractures at Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022010886` · 1/29/2022 · MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Lamp posts, street lights
## Employer
- **Name:** Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC
- **Location:** Wando-Welch Terminal, MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA, 29464
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee driving a utility tractor rig vehicle (PIT) in the container yard collided with a light pole. The employee sustained a fractured sternum (from striking the steering column) and lacerations to his lip, face, and tongue (from the broken windshield).

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