# Fractures at Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020098698` · 9/13/2020 · PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration, Inc
- **Location:** WV Potato Chip Factory, PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, 26101
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a lift to access a work platform to conduct work on an exhaust fan. As the employee stepped from the lift basket onto the work platform, the platform collapsed and the employee fell 16 feet to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a fractured left hip, two left rib fractures, a fractured left arm, and a fractured left orbital bone.

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