# Bruises, contusions at Mobley Industrial Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015041764` · 4/6/2015 · MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Bruises, contusions
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
- **Source:** Building materials-solid elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mobley Industrial Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 9500 I-10 East, MONT BELVIEU, TEXAS, 77520
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were dismantling a scaffold by passing the scaffolding materials in a chain.  One employee dropped a 5-foot scaffold pole at a height of approximately 35 to 40 feet.  The pole fell straight down, striking an employee on the ground on the brim of his hardhat.  The employee fell backwards, hitting his head and suffering head contusions.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*