# Severe wounds or internal injuries and soft tissue injuries at Automatic Environmental System
> OSHA SIR `2024098937` · 9/24/2024 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Severe wounds or internal injuries and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object tipping over
- **Source:** Vending, and gaming machines
- **Secondary source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
## Employer
- **Name:** Automatic Environmental System
- **Location:** 775 North Madison Street, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61107
- **NAICS:** 334512
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was receiving a 660-pound beverage vending machine for repair. While the machine was being moved from the back of the van to the lift gate, the caster wheel was caught between the van and the lift, causing the machine to fall onto the employee and pin him from the waist down. The employee was hospitalized with three pelvic fractures, a torn left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), injury to a knee cap, and pain in the lower back/spine.

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