# Fractures at Home Depot Repair and Liquidation Center #8616
> OSHA SIR `2019066568` · 6/29/2019 · MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Home Depot Repair and Liquidation Center #8616
- **Location:** 180 Westridge Parkway, MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA, 30253
- **NAICS:** 444130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing pallets of merchandise from a trailer using a standup forklift when there was a pallet he could not reach. The employee got off the lift to arrange the pallet in such a manner that he could reach it when an unstable pallet next to the pallet he was manipulating fell on and broke his leg.

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