# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Alpha ProTech Engineered Products, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025087965` · 8/12/2025 · VALDOSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Switchboards, panels, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha ProTech Engineered Products, Inc
- **Location:** 301 South Blanchard Street, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, 31601
- **NAICS:** 313230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a ladder and adjusting a spreader guide roller with a T-handle Allen wrench. The employee came into contact with an electrical junction box/wires, was shocked, and fell off the ladder to the concrete floor. He suffered a broken right-side rib, a puncture in the right lung, and an electrical shock burn to the right palm.

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