# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Pro Framing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032226` · 3/12/2024 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pro Framing, Inc.
- **Location:** 205 East 12th Street, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were laying sheathing on the flat roof of an apartment that was being framed when the injured employee fell into a small utility shaft approximately three stories to a temporary platform across the shaft, resulting in cuts, bruises, abrasions, and internal bleeding. The employee was hospitalized.

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