# Fractures and dislocations at Speedy Concrete Cutting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023054573` · 5/23/2023 · PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Saws-powered, except chainsaws
## Employer
- **Name:** Speedy Concrete Cutting, Inc.
- **Location:** 760 N Ocean Boulevard, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33480
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a scaffold approximately 10 feet, 4 inches high operating a handheld concrete cutting saw. The saw kicked back and knocked the employee off the scaffold to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a dislocated right shoulder, fractured right humerus, and a possible vertebral fracture.

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