# Fractures at Sysco Foods
> OSHA SIR `2022087487` · 8/23/2022 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Sysco Foods
- **Location:** 1451 River Oaks Road West, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70123
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pallet jack to transport a pallet into a cooler when a forklift exited the cooler and struck the employee's lower leg resulting in a broken bone.

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