# Fractures and dislocations at Parvin-Clauss Sign Company Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201112149` · 11/13/2020 · AURORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Parvin-Clauss Sign Company Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 21021 N Eola RD, AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60502
- **NAICS:** 339950
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a plywood cover over a 6-foot-deep excavation for a post hole sign base. The soil at the edge of the excavation failed and the employee fell into the hole, and his right humerus was fractured with a dislocation at the shoulder joint.

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