# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at American Airlines, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087795` · 8/23/2024 · JAMAICA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by door, gate, window
- **Source:** Doors  rail mounted and garage
- **Secondary source:** Industrial building
## Employer
- **Name:** American Airlines, Inc.
- **Location:** JFK airport Terminal 5, JAMAICA, NEW YORK, 11430
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating rolling hangar doors to prepare for aircraft that were coming into the mechanic shop for repairs. The employee was trapped between the hangar door and the protruding building wall, resulting in four broken ribs, a punctured lung, a bruised liver, a fractured spine, a tear in his right shoulder, and a tear in his right knee. The employee was hospitalized.

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