# Fractures at Pitney Bowes, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088313` · 8/13/2019 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Parking lot, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pitney Bowes, Inc.
- **Location:** 4201 Pottsville Pike, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19605
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A driver backed a truck up to a loading dock door and then went into the building to unload the truck. When he mistakenly opened the doors to a truck in an adjacent bay, that truck started to pull away. The driver then jumped from the dock and landed on the ground below. He sustained a fracture to the left leg below the knee that required hospitalization and surgery.

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