# Fractures at LATEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2018066372` · 6/26/2018 · HUGHESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** LATEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
- **Location:** 5368 Highway 220, HUGHESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17737
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While disconnecting a strap at the back of a flatbed truck trailer, an employee fell from the side of the truck, landing on wood mats about 5 feet below. The employee suffered a broken nose, broken ribs, broken teeth, fractured sinus cavity, fractured wrist, and facial lacerations. The employee was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*