# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at TJX Companies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043524` · 4/15/2025 · WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** TJX Companies, Inc.
- **Location:** 83 Commerce Way, WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, 01801
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A warehouse employee was standing on a step stool to unload a trailer. A box fell from the upper tier and struck the employee, causing him to fall off the step stool to the floor of the trailer. He sustained a broken and dislocated left ankle.

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