# Fractures at Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076228` · 7/16/2022 · ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wegmans Food Markets Inc.
- **Location:** 3177 Latta Road, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14612
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a box from a shelf in a hallway. She tripped over the fork of a pallet truck passing through the hallway behind her, fell backward, and landed on the other fork. She suffered a broken left hip and femur and was hospitalized.

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