# Fractures at Clark Concrete, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021097553` · 9/2/2021 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Clark Concrete, LLC
- **Location:** Medstar Georgetown Medical, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20007
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hoisting an 18-inch, 6-foot wooden work platform from the ground to a height of 12 feet. The cleat used to secure the rope failed causing the platform to fall 2-3 feet. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae.

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