# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at UPS Expedited Mail Services, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024065575` · 6/22/2024 · AVENEL, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack riding
- **Secondary source:** Scrap metal
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS Expedited Mail Services, Inc
- **Location:** 1400 Randolph Ave, AVENEL, NEW JERSEY, 07001
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was driving an electric pallet jack, the jack hit scrap metal on the floor and it lacerated his Achilles tendon.

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