# Fractures at The Florida Holocaust Museum
> OSHA SIR `20171111347` · 11/29/2017 · SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** The Florida Holocaust Museum
- **Location:** 55 5th Street S, SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, 33701
- **NAICS:** 712110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a lift (most likely scissor lift) to remove plastic that was stuck on pallets when he lost his balance and fell 10 to 15 feet off the lift to the ground, breaking both wrists and shattering his knee. The lift was unguarded at the time.

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