# Fractures at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2019088804` · 8/24/2019 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 3900 Dublin St, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70118
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving an electric pallet jack with double-stacked pallets when the top pallet (900 pounds) fell on the injured employee and fractured both legs.

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