Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Bruises, contusions
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Alpha Construction Contractors LLC, 1800 S 22nd Ave, BOZEMAN, MONTANA 59718
on — Bruises, contusions, affecting the head, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was on a 6-foot ladder that was standing on a piece of plywood, which had been placed on joists at the second-floor level of a building. The piece of plywood moved out from under the ladder. The employee fell off the ladder, through the second-floor joists and then through the first-floor joists, and onto the concrete basement floor 14 feet below. He suffered a head contusion.
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