# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at American Blanching Company
> OSHA SIR `2021010336` · 1/13/2021 · FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
## 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 less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** American Blanching Company
- **Location:** 155 Rip Wiley Road, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, 31750
- **NAICS:** 311911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.

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