# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Quality Metals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021087304` · 8/26/2021 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Metals, Inc.
- **Location:** Shoppes of Aberdeen, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32259
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 26, 2021, an employee was working from an aerial lift basket, installing metal wall panels on a new building. He fell out of the basket, landed 10 feet below on a lower canopy roof, then bounced/rolled off and fell 15 feet to the dirt ground. He suffered a broken wrist, broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, and a punctured lung and was hospitalized.

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