# Fractures at Allied Construction, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016065393` · 6/17/2016 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 26 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Construction, LLC
- **Location:** Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial School, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70126
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling scaffolding when a board became jammed. When the employee attempted to unjam the board, he lost his footing and fell through the space between the edge of the scaffold board and the wall of the building and struck the ground below. He broke two wrists and his hip.

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