# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Ed Taylor Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054246` · 5/6/2025 · LARGO, FLORIDA
## 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:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Ed Taylor Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 12333 Enterprise Blvd., LARGO, FLORIDA, 33773
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning an interior wall from the fourth rung of a 6-foot ladder when they fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left wrist, two ribs (third and fourth ribs on the left side), and a punctured lung.

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