# Fractures at Trane Supply
> OSHA SIR `2024043723` · 4/29/2024 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Trane Supply
- **Location:** 3042 Beaver Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15233
- **NAICS:** 423730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a powered industrial truck (PIT) to move HVAC products when the PIT contacted an adjacent box. The box of material fell from the rack and into the next aisle over, onto another employee who was walking down the aisle. That employee sustained a fractured lower left leg.

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