# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Pennsylvania Steel Erectors
> OSHA SIR `2018088781` · 8/24/2018 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel hoists
## Employer
- **Name:** Pennsylvania Steel Erectors
- **Location:** 1441 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19102
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a scissor lift welding lintels. The scissor lift platform was struck from below by a moving personnel hoist crushing the employee into the ceiling. The employee sustained a fractured arm and wrist, a collapsed lung, a blood clot in the lung, and kidney damage.

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