# Fractures at T. Gomes Construction, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20221210794` · 12/13/2022 · FORKED RIVER, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** T. Gomes Construction, LLC
- **Location:** 510 South Main Street, FORKED RIVER, NEW JERSEY, 08731
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While on a 5-foot high bakers scaffold, an employee was using a pneumatic staple gun to secure new insulation to the bottom of existing roof joists. He fell off the scaffold and impacted the plywood subfloor. The employee sustained a fractured left wrist, fractured ribs on the left side, a bloody nose, and bruising on the left side of the face.

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