# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at T & C Stainless Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043963` · 4/29/2025 · MOUNT VERNON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Welding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** T & C Stainless Inc.
- **Location:** 1016 Progress Street, MOUNT VERNON, MISSOURI, 65712
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just finished training an experienced welder on the welding manipulator machine and stepped underneath the manipulator arm. The machine bound up and the manipulator arm came down on the employee's shoulder. The employee fell to the ground and suffered fractured vertebrae and a spleen injury.

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