# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Big Lots Stores, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191112049` · 11/20/2019 · PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lots Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** 11854 U.S. Hwy-19, PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA, 34668
- **NAICS:** 452112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 6:12 a.m. on November 20, 2019, an employee was unloading merchandise, pulling cardboard boxes of recliners to the edge of a trailer. He fell out of the trailer and his back struck the metal railing of a scissor lift. He suffered four broken ribs and a lacerated spleen.

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