# Fractures at Houser Contracting Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017021027` · 2/1/2017 · TIPP CITY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Houser Contracting Service, Inc
- **Location:** 2028 Elderberry Dr., TIPP CITY, OHIO, 45371
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 1, 2017, an employee fell while installing roof sheeting. The employee's fall protection retractable did not hold, and the employee fell from the edge of the roof to the ground, breaking ribs and a hip.

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