# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Premier Plumbing of Southwest Florida, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054069` · 5/9/2024 · FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Premier Plumbing of Southwest Florida, Inc.
- **Location:** 5000 Orange Grove Blvd., FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33903
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a fiberglass step ladder when he fell 3-4 feet to the concrete floor, resulting in numbness in his left hand, a bruised head, cracked vertebrae, and a collapsed lung.

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