# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries at Midwest Cooling Towers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109361` · 10/7/2024 · BELOIT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Towers, poles  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Cooling Towers, Inc.
- **Location:** 1401 W B R Towline Rd., BELOIT, WISCONSIN, 53511
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing plastic packing in a cooling tower when they disconnected their lanyard from the fall arrest system to untangle it. They fell approximately 15 feet to a guardrail station, and then another 7 feet to the lower concrete surface in the basin of the cooling tower. The employee sustained a fractured right femur, a concussion, and a collapsed lung.

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