# Fractures at Waste Management of Pennsylvania
> OSHA SIR `2024087426` · 8/13/2024 · SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway
- **Source:** Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management of Pennsylvania
- **Location:** 7095 Glades Pike, SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA, 15501
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was collecting waste in a residential area on his route and was struck by a motor vehicle while walking toward the driver's side door from the rear of the truck. The employee was hospitalized for a left fibula fracture, a left lateral malleolus fracture, and a hematoma above his right eye.

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