# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Ryan Mertz Construction
> OSHA SIR `2017054067` · 5/4/2017 · TYLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Bodily conditions of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Ryan Mertz Construction
- **Location:** 7200 Paluxy Drive, TYLER, TEXAS, 75703
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a scaffold installing plywood sheets to the side of a building. The employee suffered a seizure and fell off the scaffolding approximately 12 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered facial and back injuries.

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