# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Woodhaven Furniture Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043420` · 4/19/2024 · CAIRO, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stationary sawing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Woodhaven Furniture Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 611 20th St. SE, CAIRO, GEORGIA, 39828
- **NAICS:** 337121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a panel saw. The machine malfunctioned and the employee went behind it to try and fix it. When he adjusted a valve, the machine activated and moved forward trapping him between the beam and the wood preparing to load. The employee sustained fractured ribs and injury to the abdomen and chest areas.

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