# Cuts, lacerations at Wal-Mart Distribution Center 6018
> OSHA SIR `2018088429` · 8/16/2018 · SEARCY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wal-Mart Distribution Center 6018
- **Location:** 405 E Booth Road, SEARCY, ARKANSAS, 72143
- **NAICS:** 423990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading pallets on a trailer with a single jack when the jack's forks became stuck on a dock plate. While maneuvering the single jack, the employee lost control of the equipment and ran into a conveyor system located nearby. 

The employee suffered a laceration to the left lower leg that became swollen, requiring hospitalization.

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