# Fractures at Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021117` · 2/3/2017 · LEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 45 Ashley Way, LEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 19533
- **NAICS:** 337121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading the inside of a truck trailer when a coworker drove a pallet jack into the trailer and struck the employee's leg. The employee suffered a fractured leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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