# Fractures at DHL Supply Chain
> OSHA SIR `2025043203` · 4/7/2025 · DEKALB, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
## Employer
- **Name:** DHL Supply Chain
- **Location:** 3095 CORPORATE DRIVE, DEKALB, ILLINOIS, 60115
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a standing forklift to store two pallets in an upper location and was lowering them into the final position when the upper pallet containing tires became unstable. The employee exited the forklift to adjust the pallet when it fell and the tires struck the employee. The employee sustained a fractured tibia.

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