# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at PAUL MUELLER COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2016054785` · 5/27/2016 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** PAUL MUELLER COMPANY
- **Location:** 1600 W. PHELPS ST., SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65802
- **NAICS:** 332439
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was injured on or about May 27, 2016, when an employee was getting ready to remove a base ring from a tank. The employee was standing on a ladder on the truck. A second employee was operating a crane to the west end. When the operator moved the west crane, he bumped into the east crane holding the base ring. The tank on the truck was moved 3 feet knocking the employee on the ladder in the truck off the ladder. The injured employee suffered fractured ribs and damage to the left kidney.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*