# Fractures at Skyline Decorating, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111409` · 11/5/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Skyline Decorating, Inc.
- **Location:** Goole Phase 4, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60607
- **NAICS:** 541410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On November 5, 2018, a painter was cutting in the paint from a wall to a ceiling, working from a scaffold 6 feet high. The employee fell from the scaffold, landing on the concrete floor below and suffering fractures to both wrists and a fractured skull. The employee was hospitalized.

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