# Multiple surface and flesh wounds at Internal Revenue Service
> OSHA SIR `2025077427` · 7/29/2025 · MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple surface and flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall while sitting
- **Source:** Sofas, multi-person seating
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Internal Revenue Service
- **Location:** 5333 Getwell Road, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, 38118
- **NAICS:** 921130
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee sat on an unleveled bench outside the cafeteria and fell to the concrete. The employee was hospitalized with a head contusion with bleeding and injuries to the right side of her body, her right hip, and right hand, as well as a scrape to her elbow.

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