# Fractures at Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055261` · 5/24/2019 · OMAHA, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 3001 L Street, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 68107
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a pallet jack and went to turn his pallet jack around when the jack slid on a piece of fat causing it to slide into a pillar that was holding a plastic roll holder. His left leg was caught between the plastic roll holder and the pallet jack resulting in a compound fracture to his leg.

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