# Fractures at Shamrock Foods Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098602` · 9/18/2023 · AURORA, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Shamrock Foods Company
- **Location:** 22000 East 38th Avenue, AURORA, COLORADO, 80011
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going to fill a pallet with items from the warehouse. He was reaching for the handle of the pallet jack but unintentionally grabbed the throttle, causing the pallet jack to move and pin him against another pallet jack. The employee sustained a leg fracture.

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