# Fractures at Erie Logistics
> OSHA SIR `2018054346` · 5/4/2018 · LANCASTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Erie Logistics
- **Location:** 5873 Genesee Street, LANCASTER, NEW YORK, 14086
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee walked to the front of his double pallet jack and placed his right hand on the throttle and his left on the body of pallet jack with both feet on the ground. When he turned the throttle, the pallet jack ran into his lower left leg, fracturing it.

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