# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Jacobson & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065634` · 6/4/2019 · ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY
## 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:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cutting handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Jacobson & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1079 East Grand Street, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, 07207
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was confirming measurements on the fascia/soffits. While dismounting the ladder, he lost balance, caught his foot on the front rail of the ladder, and fell onto metal cutting shears that impaled his right side. He suffered injury to his kidney, liver and colon.

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