# Fractures at The Kroger Company
> OSHA SIR `2022108925` · 10/11/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **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:** The Kroger Company
- **Location:** 701 Gellhorn, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking backward with a walkie-rider pallet jack when they tripped over another employee's walkie-rider pallet jack and fell. The employee's pallet jack partially ran over their right foot and leg, resulting in broken bones.

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