# Fractures at Platinum Stevedoring, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099531` · 9/14/2018 · GALENA PARK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
## Employer
- **Name:** Platinum Stevedoring, Inc.
- **Location:** 1606 Clinton Drive, GALENA PARK, TEXAS, 77547
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on the top of the back of his semi trailer (flatbed) where he just finished securing a load when he tripped on the top surface of the flatbed trailer and fell to the concrete slab he was parked on (fall distance height of 3.5'). He fractured his right scapula, right clavicle, and one to four right-side ribs, requiring hospitalization.

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