# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Ener-Con, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054744` · 5/20/2025 · HARTFORD, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
- **Secondary source:** Tarps, liners, wraps
## Employer
- **Name:** Ener-Con, Inc.
- **Location:** 5864 State Road 60, HARTFORD, WISCONSIN, 53027
- **NAICS:** 444220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the tarp on top of a semi trailer to assist another driver in removing the tarp when a strong gust of wind caused the tarp to lift. The tarp knocked the employee off the trailer and they fell 12 feet to the ground, resulting in fractured ribs, a fractured vertebra, and a bruised aorta.

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