# Fractures at Lineage Logistics
> OSHA SIR `20181010531` · 10/11/2018 · GENEVA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lineage Logistics
- **Location:** 2088 Geneva Drive, GENEVA, ILLINOIS, 60134
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a stand-up counterbalanced forklift and was attempting to push a stack of empty pallets using the rear, passenger compartment side of the forklift. As the pallets were being pushed, they became lodged between a rack and the forklift, causing the wooden pallets to break. Pieces of a broken pallet entered the passenger compartment of the forklift and struck the employee in the left leg, fracturing his tibia and fibula.

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