# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Kamps Pallets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010138` · 1/6/2024 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Material handling and warehousing machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kamps Pallets, Inc.
- **Location:** 5035 Great Oak Dr., LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33815
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a pallet that had become stuck on a pallet tipper machine. When the stuck pallet was dislodged, other pallets moved and pinned the employee against part of the machine. The employee suffered broken ribs and a laceration to the liver.

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