Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at URJ Greene Family Camp, 1192 Smith Lane, BRUCEVILLE, TEXAS 76630
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
Employees were conducting roof repairs on a facility. They had procured a 40-foot articulating boom lift and fall protection to conduct the work. Employee 1's harness was not connected to the anchor point and he fell approximately 8 feet to a concrete slab below. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Source, secondary source unspecified
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An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.
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