# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Lowe's Home Improvement, Store #1580
> OSHA SIR `2024010434` · 1/16/2024 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Roofing shingles and sheets
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Improvement, Store #1580
- **Location:** 1525 S Yale Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74112
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a customer load corrugated metal roofing that was 8 feet long and weighed 10.8 pounds per sheet. The employee lost his balance and approximately 10 sheets of metal fell on top of him, resulting in a punctured lung and broken ribs on his left side.

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