# Fractures at Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043011` · 4/3/2017 · GILBERTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in roadway
- **Source:** Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc.
- **Location:** 197 Swamp Creek Rd., GILBERTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19525
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spotting for a sanitation truck driver as he was reversing his vehicle when the truck tire ran over the employee's left foot, fracturing it and requiring hospitalization.

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