# Fractures at The Home Depot
> OSHA SIR `2024043454` · 4/20/2024 · MADISON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Gates
- **Secondary source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** The Home Depot
- **Location:** 211 Colony Way, MADISON, MISSISSIPPI, 39110
- **NAICS:** 444130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spotting for a forklift through the back entrance of the garden center. The injured employee unlocked the iron gate to open it when the hinges fell off the gate and it fell on them, resulting in scratches to their face and fractures to their left elbow and right lower leg.

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