# Fractures at Grocers Supply Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109589` · 10/8/2020 · BASTROP, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Grocers Supply Inc.
- **Location:** 1800 walnut, BASTROP, TEXAS, 78602
- **NAICS:** 423860
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a pallet from the back of a truck's trailer. When the employee got to the end of the lift gate his foot got caught between the safety bar/pallet stop and the manual pallet jack. He fell off the lift gate approximately 4 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a right knee injury and a shattered fibula.

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