# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076899` · 7/30/2024 · PARSONS, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Constructed surface irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
- **Location:** 2025 Union Avenue, PARSONS, KANSAS, 67357
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was vacuuming the inside of his tractor when his foot slipped off the tractor steps and he fell onto a concrete curb at the fuel bay. The employee sustained two broken ribs on the right side and a punctured lung.

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