# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at ERA REMOVAL INC
> OSHA SIR `2022076035` · 7/11/2022 · BOCA RATON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
- **Source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** ERA REMOVAL INC
- **Location:** 1489 West Palmetto Park R, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, 33486
- **NAICS:** 562119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two ERA Removal employees were working on a lift, removing iron brackets on the outside of a five-story building under a 3-foot-wide, cantilevered slab from the roof deck/area above the fifth floor. The block parapet for the roof was built on this slab. A third employee was working from a ladder on the fifth floor. The cantilevered slab from the roof with the block parapet sheared off the building and fell down three floors, damaging and collapsing the third- and fourth-floor cantilevered slabs. The two employees on the lift were hit with a large chunk of the parapet. The third employee jumped off the ladder onto the fifth floor. Two employees were hospitalized for contusions and lacerations to the head.

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