# Fractures at John Soules Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022043437` · 4/20/2022 · TYLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** John Soules Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 10150 FM 14, TYLER, TEXAS, 75706
- **NAICS:** 722211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a rider pallet truck around a corner. A forklift was stopped at the opposite side of the intersection with a pallet of chicken meat on its forks. The employee jumped off the pallet truck as it stopped, and his right foot was caught between the platform on the pallet truck and the wooden pallet on the fork truck. The ankle was broken.

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