# Fractures at Wegmans Food Markets
> OSHA SIR `2017065222` · 6/8/2017 · PITTSFORD, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Wegmans Food Markets
- **Location:** 6600 Pittsford-Palmyra Road, PITTSFORD, NEW YORK, 14534
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was collecting recyclable materials to store in a salvage trailer when he tripped over pallets on the floor. He fell on the pallets and fractured his femur.

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