# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Cardinal Coil Tubing
> OSHA SIR `20241110508` · 11/11/2024 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils
## Employer
- **Name:** Cardinal Coil Tubing
- **Location:** 9203 West County Road 139, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79706
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing into a reel to operate the inside reel valve when a shift of weight caused the reel to rotate. The employee got caught between a spoke of the wheel and the wall of the trailer, resulting in a crush injury to the chest, a lacerated spleen, multiple hemorrhages and internal bleeding, a fractured rib, an anterior chest wall abrasion, and back abrasions.

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