# Fractures at Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022065128` · 6/14/2022 · BESSEMER, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slipping
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 2400 J. Terrell Wooten Drive, BESSEMER, ALABAMA, 35020
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a grocery loader forklift. He got off the forklift to shovel ice from the ice storage box into a container to then transport the ice. He slipped on ice in the ice box resulting in a fractured right ankle.

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