Other fall to lower level unspecified · Concussions
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at TBS Construction, 105 Beech lane, KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA 19348
on — Concussions, affecting the Brain.
Final narrative
An employee was working from the second level of a scaffold. He fell off the walkway within the first working platform of the scaffold as he was egressing to the ground level. The employee suffered a concussion and was hospitalized.
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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
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