# Fractures at Ferreira Construction
> OSHA SIR `2017043341` · 4/13/2017 · PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ferreira Construction
- **Location:** RT 17 & Garden State Parkway, PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY, 07652
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling a scaffold and stripping its platform when the employee fell approximately 8 feet from the platform to the concrete below. The employee fractured four ribs and four vertebrae, requiring hospitalization.

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