# Fractures at Atlas Logistics
> OSHA SIR `2017010020` · 1/3/2017 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlas Logistics
- **Location:** 10251 E. 51st Ave. UnitA, DENVER, COLORADO, 80239
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a powered pallet jack (ride on the back style) to pick up orders. The injured employee was walking in front of the PIT, looking backwards, and ran into a stationary stack of materials. The employee operating the PIT was unable to stop the PIT before it struck the injured employee pinning him between the PIT and the stationary materials and breaking the employee's left leg.

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