# Fractures at York Container Company
> OSHA SIR `2016043257` · 4/19/2016 · YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** York Container Company
- **Location:** 138 Mount Zion Road, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, 17402
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking a unit of corrugated sheets when his foot entered the path of an automated material transfer cart. His left leg was pinned between the cart and a conveyor when a coworker stopped the machine. He fractured his left ankle and lacerated both legs, requiring hospitalization.

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