# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at AA Fluid Power Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010645` · 1/20/2025 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AA Fluid Power Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 9 41st Street S, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35222
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee set up an extension ladder and climbed it to access a work area/platform. After reaching the top of the ladder, the feet of the ladder slipped and the employee fell approximately 15 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a back injury, internal bleeding, and a collapsed lung.

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