# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Townsend Outdoor Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024010185` · 1/8/2024 · BEDFORD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees, logs, limbs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Outdoor Services, LLC
- **Location:** 7991 Pennsylvania Avenue, BEDFORD, OHIO, 44146
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee (part of a three-person crew clearing trees and brush) was operating a compact utility loader. A limb from a tree that was being felled struck the employee, who suffered broken ribs and a lung puncture and was hospitalized.

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