# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Sam's East, Inc. #4783
> OSHA SIR `2025032142` · 3/6/2025 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sam's East, Inc. #4783
- **Location:** 5150 North Garland Avenue, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75040
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was handling trash and plastic near two pallets of topsoil. The topsoil was leaning and both pallets fell onto the employee's right ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and a laceration to the head.

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