# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Metal Processors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032157` · 3/6/2025 · JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal Processors, Inc.
- **Location:** 1435 Allen St, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, 39201
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping out of his 18-wheeler truck at the end of his shift when he fell off the bottom step to the ground below. He landed on his right side, suffering a broken collar bone, 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*