# Fractures at Ingles Markets, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `20241110595` · 11/13/2024 · WINDER, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Ingles Markets, Incorporated
- **Location:** 283 North Broad St, WINDER, GEORGIA, 30680
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a pallet to reach for product on top of a gondola. She went to step onto a mobile product cart less than 1 foot in height when she fell backward off the pallet. She went to catch herself and landed on her arms. The employee suffered fractures to both arms and a broken wrist.

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