# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043034` · 4/5/2024 · NORMAL, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
- **Location:** 1600 Fort Jesse Rd, NORMAL, ILLINOIS, 61761
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking backward on top of a tire machine while carrying drum sections when he fell 2.5 feet onto the machine's O-ring segment. This resulted in two fractured ribs and a punctured lung that required hospitalization.

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