# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at IKEA Distribution Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018037819` · 9/24/2018 · PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving
## Employer
- **Name:** IKEA Distribution Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 202 Little Hearst Parkway, PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA, 31407
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating narrow aisle equipment to place a wooden pallet with plastic-wrapped product in the lower level of an aisle. He was attempting to move the equipment forward when the reverse handle was engaged. The movement caused him to be pinned under the second level cross beams and the narrow aisle equipment, fracturing his right kneecap, bruising ribs, lacerating his spleen, and puncturing a lung.

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