# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Boston Air Systems
> OSHA SIR `2022053838` · 5/3/2022 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Boston Air Systems
- **Location:** 600 Atlantic Avenue, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02110
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting the bottom of metal duct work with a reciprocating saw while on the sixth rung of a 10-foot step ladder. The saw blade snapped and the employee started to fall. He grabbed the ladder, but his momentum carried him and the ladder over and onto the floor. He fell a distance of 68 inches onto the tile floor and sustained broken ribs, internal bleeding from the spleen and a laceration to the face. The employee was hospitalized.

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