# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Shadco LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054631` · 5/28/2024 · HOME, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Pickup truck
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle trailers, trailing units
## Employer
- **Name:** Shadco LLC
- **Location:** Walnut Drive, HOME, PENNSYLVANIA, 15747
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was retrieving a suitcase generator out of the bed of a pickup truck. While handing the generator to an employee on the ground, the injured employee slipped and fell off the bumper of the truck. He landed on the tongue of the trailer that the truck was coupled to. The employee sustained a bruised lung and three fractured ribs.

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