# Fractures at HEB Grocery Company, LP
> OSHA SIR `2017010090` · 1/3/2017 · SAN MARCOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** HEB Grocery Company, LP
- **Location:** 2301 Hunter Rd, SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, 78666
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were performing preventive maintenance on an elevator table device used for stacking and palletizing totes. One employee was adjusting a braking mechanism/motor while the other was below the table. The braking mechanism was accidentally released, causing the table to fall on the second employee and pinning him below. He suffered a fractured pelvis.

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