# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Trinity Solar, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025065657` · 6/13/2025 · WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Trinity Solar, LLC
- **Location:** 25 4th Avenue, WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 06516
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to the ridge of a roof to connect his fall protection lifeline. He fell while connecting the lifeline, landing on the paved driveway about 21 feet below. He suffered broken ribs, a skull fracture, and a ruptured spleen.

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