# Fractures at Latex Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2018076862` · 7/9/2018 · CATAWISSA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Rivers, streams
## Employer
- **Name:** Latex Construction Company
- **Location:** Campbell Road and Bethel Road, CATAWISSA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17820
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a side-boom operator across a temporary bridge. The bridge collapsed and the machine rolled slightly and came to rest at about a 45 degree angle. As the employee disconnected his seat belt, he fell from the machine and landed in the creek bed on his back. The fall caused hairline fractures to his scapula and a rib.

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