# Fractures at HALPERNS' STEAK AND SEAFOOD COMPANY LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161212031` · 12/29/2016 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** HALPERNS' STEAK AND SEAFOOD COMPANY LLC
- **Location:** 1919 19th ST NW, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33311
- **NAICS:** 424460
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a truck using an electric pallet jack. As he was exiting the truck, the dock plate malfunctioned and pinned the employee's foot against the electric pallet jack causing lacerations and fractures to several bones in his right foot.

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