# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at WAL-MART DISTRIBUTION CENTER #DC6019
> OSHA SIR `2022043417` · 4/20/2022 · LOVELAND, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** WAL-MART DISTRIBUTION CENTER #DC6019
- **Location:** 7500 E. CROSSROADS BLVD., LOVELAND, COLORADO, 80538
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just set a wooden pallet down with a powered industrial truck. The truck was backing up when it struck a stack of wooden pallets. One pallet broke and a piece entered the cab of the industrial truck, striking the worker in the back of the left leg.  Wood was embedded in the back of the employee's left leg.

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