# Cuts, lacerations at Walmart Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2022054317` · 5/17/2022 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart Distribution Center
- **Location:** 9605 NW H K Dodgen Loop, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76504
- **NAICS:** 423990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a front-load pallet jack, moving a pallet, when the pallet jack's steering system jerked sharply. The employee was pinned between the pallet jack and a rack of merchandise; the employee's left foot and ankle were lacerated, and the employee was hospitalized.

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