# Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels at USIC Locating Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088583` · 8/27/2025 · BOTKINS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Tiles  ceramic, stone, glass
## Employer
- **Name:** USIC Locating Services, LLC
- **Location:** 505 East State St., BOTKINS, OHIO, 45306
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking and taking post-locate photos. He stepped on a ceramic drainage tile and his foot/leg punched through the tile. His leg was lacerated by the broken tile. The employee was hospitalized with internal bleeding due to a punctured femoral artery.

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