# Fractures at OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC
> OSHA SIR `2025043837` · 4/24/2025 · MONTROSE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC
- **Location:** 846 S. 5th Street, MONTROSE, COLORADO, 81401
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a pallet of freight at a customer's location. He was moving the pallet onto the liftgate of the truck when the liftgate dropped a couple of inches and the pallet rolled forward. His foot was caught in or under the pallet and he fell off the liftgate. He sustained a broken right femur as well as a cut above his eye from hitting the ground. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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