# Fractures at VAPOR STONE RAIL SYSTEM
> OSHA SIR `2018021740` · 2/20/2018 · PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** VAPOR STONE RAIL SYSTEM
- **Location:** 72 ARIZONA AVE, PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK, 12903
- **NAICS:** 532411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker rearrange a crate (weighing 706 pounds) with an electric pallet jack. He was standing at the end of the forks and leaned the wooden crate to get it off the forks. His coworker then lowered the forks, which bumped the ground, and the crate tipped. He tried to stop the crate from falling, but it fell on his right leg, fracturing it between the knee and foot, and requiring hospitalization.

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