# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Paccar Engine Company
> OSHA SIR `2024087499` · 8/15/2024 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Vehicle and machine platforms, surfaces
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Paccar Engine Company
- **Location:** 1000 Paccar Drive, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 333618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had removed a platform grate to expose the equipment below and replace a broken shaft. The employee slipped and fell backward through the open grate, falling approximately 12 feet to the floor. They sustained fractures to their skull, T1 vertebra, right shoulder, and rib, as well as a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

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