# Fractures at Gay & Son Masonry, LP
> OSHA SIR `2017099421` · 9/30/2017 · MCKINNEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Bricks and pavers
## Employer
- **Name:** Gay & Son Masonry, LP
- **Location:** 3701 McKinney Rancg Parkway, MCKINNEY, TEXAS, 75070
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing onto a scaffold when he tripped on bricks laying on the scaffolding platform and fell approximately 6 feet to the ground below, fracturing multiple right-side ribs and contusing his thorax. He was hospitalized.

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