# Fractures at MAGIC STONE GENERAL CONTRACTING
> OSHA SIR `2017109972` · 10/17/2017 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
## Employer
- **Name:** MAGIC STONE GENERAL CONTRACTING
- **Location:** 155 Chandler Street, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14207
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 10/17/2017, an employee was disassembling scaffolding and unbolted a section of the tower using wrenches. As he started to climb down, he grabbed the loose section of the tower and it gave way. He then fell about 12 feet to ground, fracturing a vertebra and both heels.

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