Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gay & Son Masonry, LP, 3701 McKinney Rancg Parkway, MCKINNEY, TEXAS 75070
on — Fractures, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was climbing onto a scaffold when he tripped on bricks laying on the scaffolding platform and fell approximately 6 feet to the ground below, fracturing multiple right-side ribs and contusing his thorax. He was hospitalized.
HospitalizedChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersScaffolds-staging, unspecified
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