# Fractures at The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032105` · 3/7/2023 · ASSONET, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC
- **Location:** Stop & Shop Distribution Center, ASSONET, MASSACHUSETTS, 02702
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was selecting cases to place on his pallet using an electric pallet jack when a nearby pallet jack backed into him. The employee sustained a right ankle fracture.

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