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Fractures
1 hospitalization · 2024065668 · 6/25/2024 · Westlake Chemical & Vinyls LLC
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Rib(s), oblique area
- Nature of injury
- Fractures
Cause
- Event
- Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- Source
- Scaffolds, staging unspecified
- Secondary source
- Source, secondary source unspecified
Employer
- Name
- Westlake Chemical & Vinyls LLC
- Location
- 26100 LA Hwy 405, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- NAICS
- 325211
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was opening a valve when they fell from a 3-foot stair riser platform and sustained broken ribs.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown