# Fractures at Amazon Fulfillment Center
> OSHA SIR `2018032967` · 3/27/2018 · LEWISBERRY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonclassifiable
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Amazon Fulfillment Center
- **Location:** 500 McCarthy Drive, LEWISBERRY, PENNSYLVANIA, 17339
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving product onto a pallet. The employee was moving out of the way of an oncoming powered industrial truck (PIT) when the employee stepped backwards into the pallet on the PIT resulting in a fractured fibula near the ankle.

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