# Fractures at Lariat Construction, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20181111494` · 11/7/2018 · EXTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lariat Construction, Inc
- **Location:** 277 W. Lincoln Way, EXTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 19341
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping out onto a 12-foot-wide, 6-foot-deep wood platform raised to a third-story window opening with a telescoping boom forklift. The platform flipped off the side of the forks and the employee fell about 24 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a fractured neck vertebra and was hospitalized.

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