# Fractures at Sysco Foods
> OSHA SIR `2016032359` · 3/18/2016 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sysco Foods
- **Location:** 5000 Westheimer, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77056
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While loading an electric pallet jack onto the back of a trailer, an employee slipped and fell approximately 4 feet off the lift gate and onto the parking lot asphalt, fracturing a bone in the elbow area.

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