# Fractures at HEB Refrigerated Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2019010056` · 1/2/2019 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** HEB Refrigerated Distribution Center
- **Location:** 5103 Rittiman Road, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78218
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a double pallet jack, carrying plastic pallets. As he was dismounting, he put his hand on a stack of plastic pallets for balance. The momentum of the pallet jack caused the backrest to strike and mash his hand. When he pulled his hand away, he suffered a fracture to his middle finger and a laceration to his ring finger.

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