# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at TRI-CITY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025043289` · 4/9/2025 · KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Co-worker, supervisor  current
## Employer
- **Name:** TRI-CITY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, INC.
- **Location:** 4864 Big Pine Loop, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, 34746
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were standing next to a 2 1/2-foot-deep excavation when its edge collapsed. Both employees fell into the excavation; one landed on the other's upward-pointing knee and suffered broken ribs and a lung injury.

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