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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2023098469 · 9/13/2023 · Scherrer Construction Co., Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
Nature of injury
Fractures

Cause

Event
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
Source
Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
Secondary source
Floor, n.e.c.

Employer

Name
Scherrer Construction Co., Inc.
Location
102 3rd Avenue, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, 54401
NAICS
236220
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

Employees were setting trusses while on a scaffold. The injured employee was holding one end of a truss in place on the wall as employees pulled on the other end of the truss to set their side. The end of the truss near the injured employee fell. He stepped back and fell approximately 5'5" from the scaffold to the concrete floor. The injured employee sustained lacerations to the face, mouth, nose, and skull as well as fractures to multiple ribs, orbital bones, the scapula and the clavicle.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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