Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Simplex Industries, Inc., 1 Simplex Drive, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18504
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was standing on a scaffold plank along the side of a modular home when the employee fell nearly 7 feet to the ground, suffering a back injury and requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedScaffolds-staging, unspecified
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