Fractures

Name: Fractures at L. Costa Construction Company
Start: 7/27/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018077639 · 7/27/2018 · L. Costa Construction Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts, unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
Source: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
Secondary source: Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified

Employer

Name: L. Costa Construction Company
Location: 634 West Edgar rd, LINDEN, NEW JERSEY, 07036
NAICS: 236220
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was working atop a 7-foot-high refrigerator case, spackling a sheet rock column. He was about to climb down when he tripped on debris and fell to the concrete floor, suffering severe injuries including six broken vertebrae and two broken collarbones. He was hospitalized.

Source

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