# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Buckeye Boxes, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087317` · 8/9/2024 · TIPP CITY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Buckeye Boxes, Inc.
- **Location:** 265 Lightner Road, TIPP CITY, OHIO, 45371
- **NAICS:** 322212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking to their truck when they were caught between a safety wall and the counterweights of a forklift that was backing up. The employee was hospitalized with multiple crushing injuries, including broken bones and lacerations that required skin grafts.

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