# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at West Texas Gas
> OSHA SIR `2024054278` · 5/15/2024 · COLEMAN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** West Texas Gas
- **Location:** 10548 Hwy 206 North, COLEMAN, TEXAS, 76834
- **NAICS:** 424710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fueling a bobtail semi-truck and missed a step while descending the ladder on the back of the truck. He fell 5.5 feet backward to the cement ground. The employee sustained fractures to his right ribs and his sacrum, as well as a collapsed lung.

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