# Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs at R & L Carriers Shared Services, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `20171211608` · 12/7/2017 · DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Bands
## Employer
- **Name:** R & L Carriers Shared Services, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 727 Spring Meadow Road, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, 31533
- **NAICS:** 484122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside a truck trailer pulling a crate by hand using its banding straps when the straps broke. The employee fell approximately 4 feet backward off the trailer's lift gate onto the asphalt ground, sustaining a skull fracture, several broken ribs, brain bleeding and swelling, a fractured sternum, and a collapsed lung.

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