# Cuts, lacerations at United Natural Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171110976` · 11/15/2017 · HOWELL, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** United Natural Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 433 Oak Glen Road, HOWELL, NEW JERSEY, 07731
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a pallet jack near the end of an aisle as another driver was turning into the same aisle. To avoid a collision with the other driver, the employee turned the pallet jack into some racks and suffered a 6-inch laceration to his leg. He was hospitalized.

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