# Fractures at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2015107729` · 10/16/2015 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a loaded pallet jack and caught their leg between the pallet jack and the railing at the loading dock, fracturing it.

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