# Fractures at East Penn Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `2019088195` · 8/9/2019 · TOPTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** East Penn Manufacturing
- **Location:** 50 Jefferson Street, TOPTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 19562
- **NAICS:** 335912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been preparing and moving pallets using a powered industrial truck. As the employee stepped off the truck, it crushed the employee's ankle and foot against a pallet, breaking the ankle and foot.

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