# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at MILL CREEK ALZHEIMER SPECIAL CARE CENTER
> OSHA SIR `2024076070` · 7/8/2024 · SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Intestines, peritoneum  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ceilings
- **Secondary source:** Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
## Employer
- **Name:** MILL CREEK ALZHEIMER SPECIAL CARE CENTER
- **Location:** 3319 GINGER CREEK, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 62711
- **NAICS:** 623110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an attic, looking for a leak, when he stepped through the ceiling. He caught himself and stopped his fall, but suffered an abdominal internal injury. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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