# Fractures at FRITO-LAY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025043361` · 4/10/2025 · KATHLEEN, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** FRITO-LAY, INC.
- **Location:** 1200 Highway 247 S, KATHLEEN, GEORGIA, 31047
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a pallet using a forklift. The employee stepped off the forklift to adjust a box. Before the employee returned to their own forklift, they were struck by a second forklift as it backed up. The employee's lower left leg was pinned between a pallet (carried by the second forklift) and the cab of their own forklift. They suffered multiple fractures to the lower leg.

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