# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at REPUBLIC NATIONAL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098854` · 9/23/2024 · LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
## 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:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** REPUBLIC NATIONAL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LLC
- **Location:** 210 DISTRIBUTION DRIVE, LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, 70507
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving trucks in the yard when they fell from the cabin step of an 18-wheeler truck to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs and a punctured lung.

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