# Fractures at Furino & Sons, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018077419` · 7/23/2018 · ANNANDALE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters
## Employer
- **Name:** Furino & Sons, Inc
- **Location:** 1545 US-22, ANNANDALE, NEW JERSEY, 08801
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stripping concrete forms in a lube oil sump. The temporary 2x4 handrails failed, and the employee fell 12 feet to a lower level, fracturing ribs and injuring parts of his spine.

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