# Fractures at Gordon Food Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022065587` · 6/27/2022 · TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Gordon Food Service, Inc
- **Location:** 630 John Hancock Road, TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02780
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a reach truck. As he backed up, the truck hit a pallet and pushed it into a building column. The pallet broke and a board from it hit the employee's left ankle, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized.

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