# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at SIKA CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2025043841` · 4/24/2025 · MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## 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  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Fixed ladder or fire escape
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** SIKA CORPORATION
- **Location:** 888 Dunbarton Rd, MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03102
- **NAICS:** 325520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee fell from the top of a fixed ladder, passing through the ladder's access opening and landing on the floor about 6-7 feet below. He suffered nine broken ribs (four on the left side and five on the right), as well as a punctured lung. He was hospitalized.

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