# Fractures at SHAW CONSTRUCTION
> OSHA SIR `2020043644` · 4/20/2020 · VAIL, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Other building materials-solid elements, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** SHAW CONSTRUCTION
- **Location:** 4995 Frontage Rd, VAIL, COLORADO, 81657
- **NAICS:** 236116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up a job site and throwing a board into a dumpster when he was struck by a sheet of siding that was dropped from a boom lift 20 feet above. He suffered multiple head contusions; abrasions to the head, neck, back, and chest; and fractured ribs. He was hospitalized.

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