# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2024087614` · 8/19/2024 · PRINCETON, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Boom truck, cherry picker
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative
- **Location:** Seamans Road (not an active site), PRINCETON, MAINE, 04668
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at the tailgate of a bucket truck that was back-to-back with another bucket truck. One of the trucks released its brakes and the employee became pinned between the two trucks. The employee was hospitalized with internal injuries.

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