# Multiple surface and flesh wounds at Rittal North America LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087593` · 8/18/2024 · URBANA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface and flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hoses  except machine
## Employer
- **Name:** Rittal North America LLC
- **Location:** 1 Rittal Place, URBANA, OHIO, 43078
- **NAICS:** 332119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a platform while cleaning a tank. The employee was moving a hose when the hose unlatched the safety gate and the employee fell 10 feet onto concrete. The employee sustained broken teeth and a laceration to the chin.

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