# Fractures at Coca Cola Bottling Co.
> OSHA SIR `2018022003` · 2/27/2018 · BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Coca Cola Bottling Co.
- **Location:** 9696 Plank Rd., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70811
- **NAICS:** 312111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was traveling west on a forklift through a warehouse when he impacted another forklift traveling east. The impact was a glancing left front to left front. The injured employee continued to travel and impacted a parked electric pallet jack about 20 feet away. The employee suffered a fractured left femur that required hospitalization and surgery.

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