# Fractures at Kroger Great Lakes Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2017098490` · 9/3/2017 · DELAWARE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Kroger Great Lakes Distribution Center
- **Location:** 2000 Nutter Farms Lane, DELAWARE, OHIO, 43015
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 3, 2017, an employee was driving a pallet jack down an aisle. At the same time, a coworker was dropping a plastic pallet onto another pallet. The plastic pallet bounced up and struck the backrest of the employee's pallet jack, then pinned his lower right leg/ankle between his jack platform and the pallet. His right ankle broke.

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