# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at CMC Food Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021087218` · 8/24/2021 · ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** CMC Food Inc
- **Location:** 699 Kapkowski Road, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, 07201
- **NAICS:** 424440
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the production floor in a staging area where she was folding and labeling cartons. The employee stepped out of the aisles of stacked pallets and was struck by a reversing forklift transporting a pallet of cartons. The forklift struck her right foot and she was hospitalized.

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