# Fractures at Walmart Store 6485
> OSHA SIR `2024099052` · 9/27/2024 · TINLEY PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Non-riding pallet jack
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart Store 6485
- **Location:** 16100 Harlem Ave, TINLEY PARK, ILLINOIS, 60477
- **NAICS:** 452311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to remove an electric jack that was stuck in an empty pallet. She was standing on top of the empty pallet when the pallet jack became unstuck, causing the pallet to move and the employee to fall to the ground, striking her head. She suffered a fractured left hip requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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