# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Steve's Excavating & Paving, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241110206` · 11/1/2024 · SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Steve's Excavating & Paving, Inc.
- **Location:** IZZY TRUCK CENTER PROJECT, SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, 33704
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee stumbled backward while picking up pieces of concrete. His back struck a skid steer bucket and he suffered a laceration to the forehead, as well as a broken rib and an injury to the spleen that required surgery.

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