# Fractures at Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010818` · 10/16/2019 · WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc.
- **Location:** 355 Main Street, WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, 01588
- **NAICS:** 424940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training a new hire on the milk selection process, which involves the use of a portable (wrist mounted) RF scanner and a powered pallet jack. He was walking backwards behind his jack when the lower part of his left leg was caught between the pallet jack and a stationary jack. The impact fractured his lower left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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