# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Excel Contractors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024042949` · 4/3/2024 · NEDERLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Excel Contractors, LLC
- **Location:** 1575 Lone Star Dr, NEDERLAND, TEXAS, 77627
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an aerial lift when they slipped and their safety harness ripped, causing them to fall 37 feet to the dirt surface below. They sustained fractures to ribs, both collar bones, vertebrae, and also sustained contusions to the lungs.

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