# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at GUARANTEE ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC
> OSHA SIR `2024010616` · 1/20/2024 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Straight ladders
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils
## Employer
- **Name:** GUARANTEE ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC
- **Location:** 4500 Forest Park Avenue, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was ascending a straight ladder to exit the bottom of an elevator shaft when he lost balance and fell approximately 4-5 feet onto wood wire reels. He suffered rib fractures resulting in partial pneumothorax and sustained compression fractures to 2 or 3 thoracic vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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