# Fractures at Frez-N-Stor Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191011045` · 10/23/2019 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Heel(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Frez-N-Stor Inc.
- **Location:** 610 Porter Ave, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72765
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was waiting to pull product from a pallet inverter machine to load the product into a wrap machine for storage. A second employee was operating a forklift to pull the product from the machine. The second employee lowered the forklift bucket, and the first employee stepped in front of the pallet of product and was struck by the forklift's right fork. He fell to the ground, sustaining a laceration to his left foot and a broken heel.

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