If you broke your rib, would, (with enough force) the bone be able to break the !

If you broke your rib, would, (with enough force) the bone be able to break the skin causing an open fracture?

If you were to be smashed into something hard from backwards, or something hit you and your ribs broke, would there be a chance, or would they be able to break through the skin and cause an open fracture with the ribs sticking out?
As all of the organs are kept WITHIN the ribcage, they wouldn't be damaged right?

Has this ever happened to anyon? Or does anyone know about this sort of injury please?
What would it feel like exactly?

Please help!
Tasha

3 weeks ago
By the way, this has never happened to me!
I want to know about it as i am writing a novel and need to know about this type of force/blow injury.

3 weeks ago
I'm talking about a fifteen-year-old boy here, who is athletic and plays a lot of sport if this helps.

Yes, you could get an open fracture with certain kinds of injuries. There is never any guarantee that the organs will be protected; and with a complicated fracture like an open one, it only increases the risk that there will be injury to other body parts. For example, splintered ribs can be very sharp. You could get lung punctures, and there will almost always be impact bruising.