# Fractures at Livesey Painting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088552` · 8/19/2019 · MIDDLETON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Livesey Painting, Inc.
- **Location:** 3225 Demming Way, MIDDLETON, WISCONSIN, 53562
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 19, 2019, an employee was working on a baker's scaffold while mudding drywall inside a commercial building. At approximately 11:20 a.m., the employee was standing on the scaffold and using his arms to move the scaffold across the floor when he lost balance and fell over the guardrails, landing on the concrete floor below. He fractured seven ribs and his skull.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*