# Fractures at FLEURCHEM INC
> OSHA SIR `2018099643` · 9/18/2018 · MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FLEURCHEM INC
- **Location:** 33 SPRAGUE AVENUE, MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, 10940
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 5-foot tall scaffold painting above pipes while holding onto another pipe when the pipe broke and the employee lost his footing, falling to the concrete floor. He hit his head and landed on his shoulder, suffering a scalp hematoma, fractured shoulder, and fractured vertebra. The scaffold was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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