# Fractures at Ace Hardware Dallas Retail Support Center
> OSHA SIR `2024098272` · 9/6/2024 · WILMER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ace Hardware Dallas Retail Support Center
- **Location:** 1101 E. Pleasant Run Road, WILMER, TEXAS, 75172
- **NAICS:** 531120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually loading a pallet jack that was parked on a lift gate when he lost his footing and fell to the ground below, resulting in four fractured ribs.

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