# Fractures at Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010503` · 1/17/2024 · THOMSON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 1742 Warrenton Highway, THOMSON, GEORGIA, 30824
- **NAICS:** 321114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been warming his hands at a stationary heater near the stacker operator. He was by the rear passenger-side of his parked forklift when another forklift reversed and struck him. His left leg was pinned between the two forklifts and he sustained a fractured fibula.

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