Fractures

Name: Fractures at Weston Landscape & Tree Company, Inc.
Start: 2/23/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018021877 · 2/23/2018 · Weston Landscape & Tree Company, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Skull
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Ice, sleet, snow

Employer

Name: Weston Landscape & Tree Company, Inc.
Location: 23 Sutton Place, WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02493
NAICS: 561730
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was 5-6 steps up a 12' orchard-style ladder when the ladder shifted on a patch of black ice. The employee lost balance and fell, becoming entangled in the ladder, and struck his head against the pavement during the fall resulting in a skull fracture.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown