# Fractures at Otis Elevator Company
> OSHA SIR `2023076122` · 7/10/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in  nonroadway area
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Otis Elevator Company
- **Location:** 1289 N. Post Oak, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77055
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just replaced the passenger-side rear panel of a stake truck and was latching the panels together. A freight truck pulled away from the loading dock and struck the vehicle the employee was working on, pushing the vehicle into the employee and pinning him between the vehicle and a roll-off dumpster. He suffered a hip fracture.

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