# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Hard Rock Concrete Cutters, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065997` · 6/23/2025 · WHEELING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Industrial vacuums
- **Secondary source:** Pickup truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Hard Rock Concrete Cutters, Inc.
- **Location:** 601 Chaddick Drive, WHEELING, ILLINOIS, 60090
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a dry vacuum onto the liftgate of his pickup truck and raised the liftgate. While standing on the ground, he went to push the vacuum into the truck. The vacuum tipped over and fell on top of him. The employee sustained four fractured ribs and a collapsed left lung.

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