# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at M & M Transport Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241111045` · 11/29/2024 · PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** M & M Transport Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 185 Park Road, PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT, 06260
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading equipment from the back of a trailer. As he was stepping from the trailer to the liftgate, he fell to the asphalt ground from the liftgate and struck the back of his head. He sustained fractured ribs on the right side, a torn right rotator cuff, a sprained right wrist, and a head abrasion.

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