BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—
Wilder Painting
Other fall to lower level unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wilder Painting, 725 Commonwealth Ave, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02115 on — Fractures , affecting the Upper and lower extremities n.e.c..
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Final narrative
An employee was performing painting work from a ladder on a fifth-floor stairwell landing when they fell off the fifth step of the ladder to the ground below, resulting in two fractured wrists and a fractured hip.
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