# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Premier Aluminum, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021010027` · 1/3/2021 · RACINE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Premier Aluminum, LLC
- **Location:** 3633 South Memorial Drive, RACINE, WISCONSIN, 53403
- **NAICS:** 331521
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was helping a forklift operator weigh and load scrap aluminum into a shipping container. The employee was caught between the forklift's hopper and a shelf mounted to a cinderblock wall and hospitalized for a broken pelvis and a lacerated spleen, colon and liver.

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