# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at United Steel Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065386` · 6/13/2017 · SARASOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** United Steel Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 5275 N. Washington Blvd., SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 34234
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a bridging angle to a bar joist while wearing fall protection. He was welding it when he fell 30 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, collapsed lung, and three broken ribs.

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