# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at J & K Plumbing & Heating Co, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043652` · 4/26/2024 · JOHNSON CITY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** J & K Plumbing & Heating Co, Inc.
- **Location:** 10 Gannette Drive, JOHNSON CITY, NEW YORK, 13790
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the fourth or fifth rung of a double-sided, 8-foot ladder and handing a duct up to another employee when the leg of the ladder broke and he fell to the concrete floor, landing on his side and head. The employee was hospitalized with five cracked ribs, a contusion and laceration to the skull, and a bruised lung.

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