# Fractures at Bilfinger Westcon, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015118588` · 11/13/2015 · SMITHFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bilfinger Westcon, Inc.
- **Location:** Mark West Liberty Mobley Processing Facility, SMITHFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA, 26437
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On November 13, 2015, at approximately 2:30 PM, an employee was working from an aerial lift and signaling a crane lifting a pipe. The crane was overloaded, tipped, and struck the aerial basket the employee was riding in.  The employee was bounced out of the aerial lift. When the crane sat back down, the employee was bounced back in the aerial lift and back out again. The employee suffered a spinal fracture, broken ribs, and multiple facial fractures, requiring hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*