# Fractures at Methuen Construction Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065563` · 6/11/2025 · FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Methuen Construction Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 5 Arsene Street, FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS, 02719
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were working on an elevated work platform. While they were installing a fiberglass extension ladder into an empty sewage treatment clarifier, the platform fell, causing both employees to fall about 14 feet. One of them suffered fractures to the nose, a finger, ribs, and vertebrae. The other employee also sustained a fracture. Both employees were hospitalized.

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