# Fractures at MRG Construction LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20181010551` · 10/12/2018 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Other structural elements, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MRG Construction LLC.
- **Location:** 5959 N Dunkirk St., DENVER, COLORADO, 80249
- **NAICS:** 238170
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hanging plywood to the exterior of an apartment building. The employee was straddling a guardrail and was leaning past it when it swung outwards and the employee fell approximately 11 feet out of a wall opening onto a concrete patio. The employee was wearing a harness and a lifeline, but it failed to arrest his fall. Both of the employee's knees were fractured and his chin and right hand were lacerated.

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