Fractures

Name: Fractures at Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc.
Start: 8/25/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021087263 · 8/25/2021 · Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Lumbar region
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Step ladders
Secondary source: Pliers, tongs

Employer

Name: Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc.
Location: 7101 S Padre Island Drive, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78412
NAICS: 238290
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was standing on the second or third rung of an A-frame ladder, holding a piece of sheet metal and using pliers to put tension on it. The rubber grip on the pliers came off and the employee fell, suffering lower back fractures.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown