# Fractures at Bollinger Shipyards
> OSHA SIR `2020032565` · 3/18/2020 · AMELIA, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bollinger Shipyards
- **Location:** 816 Bollinger Ln, AMELIA, LOUISIANA, 70340
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While painting the hull of a ship, a painter fell to the ground from a scaffold. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his arm, a skull fracture, lumbar fracture, and a pulmonary contusion.

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