# Fractures at HEB
> OSHA SIR `2024043037` · 4/6/2024 · BOERNE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Pallet jack riding
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** HEB
- **Location:** 29388 IH 10 West, BOERNE, TEXAS, 78006
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking backward while operating a walk-behind pallet jack when he backed into a pallet of product on the floor and fell backward onto the pallet. The pallet jack rolled onto his foot and crushed and fractured two of his toes.

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