# Fractures at Vogler Motor Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015063396` · 6/3/2015 · CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** Vogler Motor Company Inc.
- **Location:** 301 N Illinois, CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, 62901
- **NAICS:** 441110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a pallet of parts down a ramp into the basement using a non-powered pallet jack when the load got away and pinned the employee between the pallet jack and the wall breaking the employee's fibula and tibia.  The employee required surgery to repair the fractures.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*