# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at SOUTHWESTERN ROOFING AND METAL, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019043409` · 4/2/2019 · OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **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:** Skylights
- **Secondary source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** SOUTHWESTERN ROOFING AND METAL, INC.
- **Location:** 5600 W Reno, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 73127
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a sheet metal foreman measure a small sheet metal roof over the dock. The employee walked onto the sheet metal roof and fell through a flush skylight on the canopy.  He fell 16 feet, landed on some 55-gallon drums, bounced, and ended up on the dock concrete flooring. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, a punctured lung, an injury to the other lung, and a damaged spleen.

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