# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Red Thread Spaces, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191212452` · 12/3/2019 · MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
## 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:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Red Thread Spaces, LLC
- **Location:** 248 Old Gate Lane, MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06460
- **NAICS:** 337214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling cardboard to the back opening of a truck. There was slush that made the back of the truck slippery. The employee slipped and fell backward 4 feet from the truck to the ground, sustaining three broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a severe head laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

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