# Fractures at Atlas Logistics
> OSHA SIR `20161211489` · 12/9/2016 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlas Logistics
- **Location:** 10251 E. 51st Ave. UnitA, DENVER, COLORADO, 80239
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just come out of the restroom and was waiting by a stack of pallets. A coworker turned on his pallet jack and moved the handle, causing it to move in the wrong direction. The jack then hit the employee's left leg, breaking it above the ankle and requiring surgery.

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