# Fractures at James Marine Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016065576` · 6/22/2016 · PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** James Marine Inc
- **Location:** 4040 Clarks River Rd, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, 42001
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee had been welding in a clean fuel tank while standing on a scaffold when he became dizzy. He fell off the scaffold and suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured left scapula, and a fractured rib.

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