# Strains at The Home Depot Store#954
> OSHA SIR `2023032464` · 3/18/2023 · UNION, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Strains
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** The Home Depot Store#954
- **Location:** 930 Springfield Road South, UNION, NEW JERSEY, 07083
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were lowering a crate of landscape edging that was stacked upright in a trailer onto a pallet. The crate slipped and bounced off the pallet, striking one employee's right ankle and knocking him to the ground. He suffered a crushing injury to the foot and ankle with a strain, as well as a lower back strain.

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