# Fractures at NarthStar Demolition and Remediation, LP
> OSHA SIR `2016010182` · 1/8/2016 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Ducts
## Employer
- **Name:** NarthStar Demolition and Remediation, LP
- **Location:** 3390 Lake Buena Vista Dr., ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32820
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees working from a scissor lift were removing overhead air conditioning duct work at approximately 19 feet in height. When the employees cut the straps that were holding the duct work in place, it swung down and hit the scissor lift, causing it to turn over. The first employee sustained a fractured vertebra and shattered right knee. The second employee suffered a fractured left femur.

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