# Fractures at RecycleThatStuff.com
> OSHA SIR `2021054182` · 5/22/2021 · APPLETON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** RecycleThatStuff.com
- **Location:** 121 North Linwood Avenue, APPLETON, WISCONSIN, 54914
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a box truck. The employee was operating a manual pallet jack while walking backwards onto the lift gate. The jack struck the employee's right leg, fracturing the fibula and the tibia.

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