# Fractures at Rehrig Pacific Company
> OSHA SIR `2023109788` · 10/24/2023 · WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rehrig Pacific Company
- **Location:** 32 Earth Conservancy Drive, WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18706
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning off a pallet sorting machine. The employee jumped approximately two feet from the top of the pallet sorting machine to a lower platform. Upon landing, the employee's left ankle rolled, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization.

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