# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Southern States Material Handling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032096` · 3/7/2024 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern States Material Handling, Inc.
- **Location:** 6595 Pritchard Road, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32219
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a man up order picker that required the steel platform to be fully extended to work underneath it, when the platform released and crushed them resulting in a punctured lung and fractures to their shoulder, vertebrae, and seven ribs.

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