# Fractures at Wayne Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032023` · 3/2/2020 · KINGWOOD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Electric parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wayne Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 22999 US-59 N, KINGWOOD, TEXAS, 77339
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a UPS cabinet off a pallet using a pallet jack. The pallet buckled and tipped toward the employee, bending his right hand back. He suffered two broken bones in the hand and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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