# Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries at Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
> OSHA SIR `2018066518` · 6/29/2018 · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Structures, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries
- **Location:** 4101 Washington Ave, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, 23607
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was working on an aircraft carrier in drydock. While climbing across from one tower of free standing staging to another, he fell, landing on the dock floor about 30 feet below. He was hospitalized, having suffered two compound fractures in his left arm that required surgery, bruised kidneys/spleen, and a broken left wrist.

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