# Cuts, lacerations at Metropolitan Foods
> OSHA SIR `2016065415` · 6/17/2016 · CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Metropolitan Foods
- **Location:** 174 Delawanna Ave, CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY, 07014
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was riding on a powered industrial pallet jack when the pallet jack suddenly stopped and he fell forward. He struck his head on the concrete when he fell off the pallet jack and lacerated his head.

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