# Fractures at Dollar Tree, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010762` · 10/15/2019 · WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Dollar Tree, Inc.
- **Location:** 99 International Drive, WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT, 06095
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a forklift into a trailer. While turning to avoid a pail, he struck a metal bar used to raise or lower the extendable, suffering a puncture wound to the left leg and a fractured lower leg bone.

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