# Fractures at GRADALL INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2023032275` · 3/13/2023 · NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO
## 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:** Building, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** GRADALL INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 406 MILL AVENUE SW, NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO, 44663
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was assisting in the movement of a modular office unit that was being lifted by another employee using a side loader. The injured employee went to grab a board underneath the pallet and the pallet, load included, fell off the forks of the side loader and pinned the injured employee between his sit-down forklift and the side loader. The injured employee sustained non-displaced fractures to the right tibia and fibula.

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