# Fractures at GEORGE WEIS COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2019088013` · 8/5/2019 · CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI
## 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:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers
## Employer
- **Name:** GEORGE WEIS COMPANY
- **Location:** Holiday Inn, CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI, 63141
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an elevated platform. When the employee grabbed a wire rope guardrail, the guardrail collapsed, and the employee fell head first approximately 6 feet into a lift basket. The employee sustained bruising to the spinal cord, fractured vertebrae, and a broken nose.

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