Rolling Plains Construction, Inc.
2025-08-21 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
Final narrative
An employee was climbing the rungs of a baker scaffold. When he was about 3 feet off the ground, he fell backward from the scaffold. His back struck a short wall as he fell. He was hospitalized, having suffered three broken ribs and a punctured left lung.
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