# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Yowell's Roofing Co.
> OSHA SIR `20171010102` · 10/20/2017 · LUTZ, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Yowell's Roofing Co.
- **Location:** 1635 N. Dale Mabry Hwy Suite 15, LUTZ, FLORIDA, 33548
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a step ladder working on a soffit and fascia when he fell off the step ladder and landed on a sprinkler head. The sprinkler head punctured his intestines and stomach.

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