# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021815` · 2/27/2023 · CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1916 SW 45th Street, CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA, 33914
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting his co-worker in loading freight into a box truck. As the liftgate was raised with the freight and pallet jack on it, the liftgate dropped about one foot, causing the freight to fall on top of the employee who was hospitalized for multiple spine and rib fractures, lung perforations, and a knee dislocation.

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