# Fractures at DENKA PERFORMANCE ELASTOMER, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017077046` · 7/27/2017 · LA PLACE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple head locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** DENKA PERFORMANCE ELASTOMER, LLC
- **Location:** 560 Highway 44, LA PLACE, LOUISIANA, 70068
- **NAICS:** 325212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing a distillation column. He walked inside an area that was barricaded by a scaffold and fell approximately 25 feet, hitting a pipe on the way down. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture, facial fracture, back injury, and also needed sutures.

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