# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at GENERAL MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019021207` · 2/1/2019 · STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GENERAL MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INC.
- **Location:** 100 Leominster Road, STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, 01564
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a roof top unit and was either ascending or descending the roof hatch ladder when he lost his footing and fell to the concrete floor. The employee sustained broken eye sockets, a concussion, a fractured knee and internal bleeding.

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