# Fractures at B & M Drywall, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020021611` · 2/18/2020 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **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:** B & M Drywall, LLC
- **Location:** Protective Life, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35223
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was framing a soffit at the top of a scaffold. He pushed himself using bars attached to a desk as leverage. The scaffold started to roll too fast, and when he tried to stop it, he fell approximately 5 feet from the top of the scaffold onto the concrete floor. He suffered a cut on the head, a right knee and lower leg fracture, and a left knee fracture.

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