# Fractures at The Hershey Company
> OSHA SIR `2016087643` · 8/15/2016 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers
## Employer
- **Name:** The Hershey Company
- **Location:** 6 Scotch Pine Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 311330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an electric pallet jack and was backing up when his foot contacted a rail. His foot was crushed between the pallet jack and the rail, breaking a bone in his foot and requiring overnight hospitalization.

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