# Fractures at Interstate Waste Services
> OSHA SIR `2024010642` · 1/22/2024 · MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in roadway
- **Source:** Garbage trucks
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Interstate Waste Services
- **Location:** 2 Sherwood Ave, MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY, 08054
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was riding on the rear step of a refuse collector. The employee got off the truck and the vehicle drove backward over the employee's foot, fracturing it.

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