# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at The Giant Company
> OSHA SIR `2025065682` · 6/14/2025 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** The Giant Company
- **Location:** 1600 nay Aug Ave, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18509
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving pallets of water. A pallet started to lean, and the employee moved to its side to push the 35-pack of water and straighten the product on the pallet. The water fell and knocked the employee to the ground, and the employee suffered a dislocation to the left hip as well as a fracture to the hip socket. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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