Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact more than 30 feet · Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pro Framing, Inc., 205 East 12th Street, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA 57104
on — Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels , affecting the Part of body unspecified.
Final narrative
Employees were laying sheathing on the flat roof of an apartment that was being framed when the injured employee fell into a small utility shaft approximately three stories to a temporary platform across the shaft, resulting in cuts, bruises, abrasions, and internal bleeding. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Part of body unspecified Roof surface
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