# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032541` · 3/18/2020 · UNDERWOOD, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.
- **Location:** Coal Creek Station, UNDERWOOD, NORTH DAKOTA, 58576
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing abrasive blasting from an 8-foot step ladder. He fell from the ladder and blasting medium was injected into his armpit. He was hospitalized.

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