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 Scaturro Brothers Inc., 49 Cedar Drive, FRANKLIN, NEW JERSEY 07416
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the Multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was on a scaffold inside a water tank. The employee fell to the floor of the tank, about 10 feet below, and sustained clavicle and rib injuries.
Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
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