Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SCHNABEL FOUNDATION COMPANY, 150 Hicks Road, AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS 01003
on — Fractures, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was clearing the bottom of an underpinning excavation when the ceiling collapsed and he became pinned under a large granite rock from the old foundation they were underpinning. The employee was hospitalized and received surgery to repair broken bones in his back.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedDitches, channels, trenches, excavations
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