# Fractures at Valspar Specialty Coatings
> OSHA SIR `2016021011` · 2/2/2016 · MASSILLON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Valspar Specialty Coatings
- **Location:** 600 Nova Dr. S.E., MASSILLON, OHIO, 44646
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was talking with a powered industrial truck (PIV) operator who was unloading a vehicle. As he walked back to his office, the PIV operator reversed the PIV and hit him, knocking him to the ground and running over and fracturing his left foot/ankle. He was hospitalized.

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