Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Performance Contractors Inc., 20200 LA Highway 23 South, PORT SULPHUR, LOUISIANA 70083
on — Fractures , affecting the Upper arm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking back from the tool room through the scaffolding material storage area. The employee's pant leg got caught on one of the 8-foot long scaffold planks that was in a scaffold rack. The employee tripped on the scaffold plank and fell forward, landing on his left elbow. The employee sustained a compound fracture to his left arm above the elbow and was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Other constructed surface
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