# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Austal USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021622` · 2/18/2025 · MOBILE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
## Employer
- **Name:** Austal USA, LLC
- **Location:** 100 Austal Way, MOBILE, ALABAMA, 36602
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 2/18/2025, at around 11:15 AM, an employee was rigging up a G/T fan. He went to step over a hatch, tripped on the hatch handle, and fell, striking his side on a piece of scaffold bar that was at floor level. The employee sustained three broken ribs and a punctured lung.

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