# Fractures at Rosendin Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032897` · 3/31/2017 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling powered vehicle
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rosendin Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 3810 Jackson Ave., AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78741
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While unloading a reel of wire with a pallet jack, the wheels of the pallet jack rolled off the truck's lift gate causing the wire and the pallet jack to flip over onto the ground and strike the employee's ankle and fracturing it.

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