# Fractures at Wakefern Food Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023010411` · 1/13/2023 · ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Wakefern Food Corporation
- **Location:** 600 York Street, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, 07207
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was entering a trailer when a pallet of compacted cardboard boxes tipped off a topper and fell onto the employee's left leg, resulting in a crush injury to the lower left leg/ankle.

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