# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Atlantic Ambulance Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024010078` · 1/4/2024 · NEWTON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lung(s), pleura
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlantic Ambulance Corporation
- **Location:** Newton Medical Center 175 High Street, NEWTON, NEW JERSEY, 07860
- **NAICS:** 621910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a metal rolling cart from a truck to the loading dock when they fell off the liftgate to the ground. The employee sustained a right fourth rib fracture and displacement as well as a lung contusion.

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