# Fractures at MASONRY BUILDERS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20181111650` · 11/12/2018 · LAKEWOOD RANCH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MASONRY BUILDERS, INC.
- **Location:** 11525 E State Rd, LAKEWOOD RANCH, FLORIDA, 34202
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling scaffold that was three frames high and had planking that was three planks wide. As he was dismantling the ladder portion, the ladder tipped forward and he lost his balance and fell 18 feet to the ground, suffering a left heel fracture, a right ankle fracture and compression of numbers 1, 2 and 3 vertebrae.

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