# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Claridge Products and Equipment, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088461` · 8/17/2018 · HARRISON, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Claridge Products and Equipment, Inc.
- **Location:** 219 Industrial Park Rd, HARRISON, ARKANSAS, 72601
- **NAICS:** 339940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After loading metals onto racks to be picked up by a crane for the anodizing process, an employee was standing idle when he was stuck by the control cab of the crane, which was about 4 feet above the ground. The cab of the crane pushed the employee into one of the support steel columns of the building, where he suffered a collapsed right lung and one broken rib. He was hospitalized.

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