# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at J M Business Associates, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171111333` · 11/29/2017 · ITHACA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** J M Business Associates, Inc.
- **Location:** 201 Maple Ave, ITHACA, NEW YORK, 14850
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing framing operations when he tripped and then fell against a wooden midrail. The midrail broke and he fell approximately 12 feet to the ground, lacerating his head and bruising a shoulder.

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