# Fractures at Consolidated Electrical Distributors
> OSHA SIR `2023010132` · 1/5/2023 · STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Consolidated Electrical Distributors
- **Location:** 1332 N. 9th St. Ste. 101, STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 18360
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering a pallet of solar panels that was on top of a pallet jack on a lift gate. The pallet weighed more than 1,000 pounds. When the employee jumped off the truck, the pallet tipped over and fell on top of them, resulting in a leg fracture that required hospitalization.

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