# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021108716` · 10/9/2021 · ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** Wegmans Grocery Warehouse, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14624
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing cases of products on pallets on a grocery shipping line. While he was between two pallets, adjusting a case on one of them, a pallet jack moved to pick up one of the pallets. The employee was caught between the two pallets and suffered a sprained ankle, two broken ribs, and a punctured lung. He was hospitalized.

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