# Fractures at L. Costa Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2018077639` · 7/27/2018 · LINDEN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
- **Secondary source:** Scrap, waste, debris, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** L. Costa Construction Company
- **Location:** 634 West Edgar rd, LINDEN, NEW JERSEY, 07036
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working atop a 7-foot-high refrigerator case, spackling a sheet rock column. He was about to climb down when he tripped on debris and fell to the concrete floor, suffering severe injuries including six broken vertebrae and two broken collarbones. He was hospitalized.

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