# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Stefaniks' Next Generation Contracting
> OSHA SIR `2025076877` · 7/16/2025 · ALIQUIPPA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
- **Source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
- **Secondary source:** Trucks  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Stefaniks' Next Generation Contracting
- **Location:** 3113 Green Garden Rd, ALIQUIPPA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15001
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unhooking the ramps to an equipment trailer in preparation for unloading equipment. The employee engaged the pneumatic system to lower the ramp. He walked around the back of the trailer and the ramp fell down and pinned him to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his T5 and T7 to T11 vertebrae, three fractured ribs on the left side, a punctured lung, and severe bruising of his left side and hip. The employee was hospitalized.

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