# Fractures at Blakeslee Prestress, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20221110280` · 11/22/2022 · BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Girders, beams, structural steel
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Blakeslee Prestress, Inc.
- **Location:** 25 McDermott Drive, BRANFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06405
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a ledge of a precast T-girder using a trowel with mortar to fill recesses in the beam. The employee fell approximately three feet, six inches from the ledge to the ground, striking a concrete block and possibly the adjacent girder that was located behind him. He sustained fractures of the right fifth through ninth ribs, a contusion to the forearm, abrasion and contusion to the face, and a laceration to the tongue and was hospitalized.

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