# Fractures at Yale New Haven Hospital, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098772` · 9/22/2023 · NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** Yale New Haven Hospital, Inc.
- **Location:** 20 York Street, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 06519
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was backing up a powered industrial truck (PIT) when it collided with an elevator door. The collision caused the elevator doors to open, and the employee and PIT fell to the bottomo of the elevator shaft 6 to 7.5 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to the right leg, lumbar vertebra, and head injuries.

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