# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at SA Recycling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024109173` · 10/1/2024 · SHEFFIELD, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SA Recycling LLC
- **Location:** 700 West 20th St., SHEFFIELD, ALABAMA, 35660
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down between a truck and trailer to remove the tarp from the load when the material got caught on the tarp. As he was climbing down to remove the tarp from the material, he tripped on a pipe or bungee cord and fell from the fender to the ground. The employee sustained fractured ribs and a pneumothorax on the right side of his body.

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