# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Biewer-Wisconsin Sawmill, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025065794` · 6/18/2025 · PRENTICE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Biewer-Wisconsin Sawmill, INC.
- **Location:** 400 Red Pine Court, PRENTICE, WISCONSIN, 54556
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was dismantling a kiln. As he was pulling top panels apart, a panel gave out and he fell approximately 6-8 feet, resulting in a fractured lower vertebra and a bruised lung. Fall protection was not tied off at the time.

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