# Fractures at Weavertown Environmental Group
> OSHA SIR `2017087823` · 8/15/2017 · MC DONALD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Weavertown Environmental Group
- **Location:** 3866 Millers Run Road, MC DONALD, PENNSYLVANIA, 15057
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on an elevated platform and placing a tarp on top of a roll-off box when he lost his balance and fell approximately 8 feet to the bottom of a metal solidification pit, breaking two neck bones and seven ribs. He was hospitalized.

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