# Fractures at Metal Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018010123` · 1/4/2018 · WINDSOR, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal Container Corporation
- **Location:** 1201 Metal Container Ct, WINDSOR, COLORADO, 80550
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee had been driving a fork truck to load empty cans (product). The injured employee then left the fork truck as another employee was reversing a fork truck nearby. He was in the other fork truck driver's blind spot, and the fork truck driver pinned him between the two fork trucks. He fractured his lower left and right legs, requiring hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*