# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at AKT Environmental Services Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021064851` · 6/15/2021 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** AKT Environmental Services Inc.
- **Location:** 13800 Old Gentilly Road, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70129
- **NAICS:** 334512
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were removing an exterior wall panel from a building. As the panel was being lowered down by a winch and a tagline, it hit a swing stage scaffold and broke into several pieces. The panel fell about 15 feet to the scaffold below and struck an AKT employee. The employee suffered two broken ribs, an internal laceration, and a puncture wound on the side of the chest.

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