# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Safway Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017099170` · 9/25/2017 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Safway Services, LLC
- **Location:** Carnegie Science Center, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15212
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling a scaffold. While walking across two 7' steel scaffold planks, the planks separated and the employee fell 18 feet through the gap to the concrete surface below. The employee sustained a fractured left clavicle, fractured arm and a collapsed lung.

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