# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries at BYU-Idaho
> OSHA SIR `2025044029` · 4/30/2025 · REXBURG, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Collapse, engulfment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
- **Secondary source:** Engineering controls  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** BYU-Idaho
- **Location:** 525 S Center St, REXBURG, IDAHO, 83460
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A student employee was moving a shipment of steel bar stock (approximately 3/4  by 3  by 10-12 ) in the stock room by himself. Shortly thereafter, another employee and two students heard a loud noise. They discovered the employee unconscious underneath a pile of bar stock weighing approximately 916 pounds. The student employee sustained skull fractures, brain swelling, a collapsed lung, and a spinal cord injury.

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