Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bayou Investors Group LLC, Jonesboro Rd. House 3535 Jonesboro Rd., WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA 71291
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was on scaffolding, paining the outside of a rental property. He fell from the scaffolding to the ground 12 feet below and suffered fractures to the right heel and a lower-back vertebra.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, n.e.c.Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
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