# Fractures at HD Supply Facilities Maintenance, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2018065701` · 6/11/2018 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** HD Supply Facilities Maintenance, LTD
- **Location:** Fountainview Apartments, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33612
- **NAICS:** 423850
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a manual pallet jack to load the delivery truck. The employee moved backwards inside the cargo area while pulling the pallet of merchandise with the manual pallet jack, stepped off the back edge of the box truck bed and fell approximately four feet to the ground. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the left ankle.

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