# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at Rolling Plains Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088364` · 8/21/2025 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple internal chest locations
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rolling Plains Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 9900 W. Parmer Lane Suite 100, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78717
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing the rungs of a baker scaffold. When he was about 3 feet off the ground, he fell backward from the scaffold. His back struck a short wall as he fell. He was hospitalized, having suffered three broken ribs and a punctured left lung.

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