Fractures

Name: Fractures at BU Medical School
Start: 1/26/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017010839 · 1/26/2017 · BU Medical School

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
Source: Ladders-fixed

Employer

Name: BU Medical School
Location: Housman Building, 780 Harrison Avenue, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02118
NAICS: 611310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to go from one roof section to an upper roof section and missed the top rung. The employee fell 14 feet to the lower roof and hit his head. The employee suffered cracked ribs and a lung contusion. The fixed ladder had a cage around it.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown