# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at BUSKE LOGISTICS
> OSHA SIR `2015064008` · 6/23/2015 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** BUSKE LOGISTICS
- **Location:** 1904 N LE COMPTE RD, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65801
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee and three to four additional temporary and permanent employees were attempting to down-stack leaning pallets of product (canned and bottled beverages) from a stack of three loaded pallets. The stack was approximately 15-20 feet high. The pallets fell, for an unknown reason, and the temporary employee was pinned under product and pallets against the wall. He suffered a broken femur and fibula, broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a possible lacerated spleen. He was hospitalized.

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