# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at M & A Safety Services
> OSHA SIR `2023010097` · 1/5/2023 · GRAY, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** M & A Safety Services
- **Location:** 311 Trinity Lane, GRAY, LOUISIANA, 70359
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was participating in lifeboat emergency escape training. The lever to drop the lifeboat was actuated while the employee was seated on a solid bench inside the lifeboat. The lifeboat dropped onto the water below. The impact caused the employee to sustain fractured vertebrae and a lacerated liver.

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