# Fractures at Cliffhanger Janitorial, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021745` · 2/20/2018 · MIAMI, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Cliffhanger Janitorial, Inc.
- **Location:** 3900 NW 25th Street, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33142
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing building windows when the clamp supporting him slipped off the parapet wall. He then fell approximately 36 to 42 feet, striking a tree and then landing on the grass lawn below. He broke his right arm, six right-side ribs, and one vertebra, requiring hospitalization and surgery. The clamp was not tied back to an independent life line at the time of the incident.

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