# Fractures at Nor-Am Cold Storage
> OSHA SIR `2020010252` · 1/9/2020 · ELWOOD, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nor-Am Cold Storage
- **Location:** 1301 Oak St, ELWOOD, KANSAS, 66024
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was working in a warehouse and was using a motorized double jack. A nearby powered industrial truck (PIT) was lifting a pallet of boxes that contained frozen meat and weighed 60 pounds each. The PIT struck a cross-member of a storage rack. The load then shifted and the PIT overturned. The boxes fell off the pallet and struck the injured employee breaking his right tibia.

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