# Fractures at Caravels, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171110648` · 11/5/2017 · RINCON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Caravels, LLC
- **Location:** 2789 Georgia Highway 21 South, RINCON, GEORGIA, 31326
- **NAICS:** 334416
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was elevating a scissor lift while inside the lift's basket when one side of the scissor lift's guardrail system became caught on the guardrail system of an adjacent stationary lift. The scissor lift the employee was in then toppled over and fell to the ground. The employee sustained fractured ribs on  the left side of his body.

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