# Fractures at Cintas
> OSHA SIR `2019099284` · 9/6/2019 · BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Cintas
- **Location:** 6001 W. 73rd Street, BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS, 60638
- **NAICS:** 812332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a cart full of garments through a doorway. The employee then transitioned to the front of the cart to continue pulling it. As the walkway began to slope downwards, the cart caught the employee s leg against a pallet of quick-dry cement. The employee was hospitalized with a broken tibia and fibula.

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