# Fractures at Building Systems Erectors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088143` · 8/9/2018 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Building Systems Erectors, Inc.
- **Location:** 1920 Tennessee Ave, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45212
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing steel erection activities and placing clips, insulation and roof sheeting onto a pre-engineered metal building. The employees were walking and working from a partial bundle of roof sheeting (approximately 3 sheets). During the operation, an employee stepped on an inadequately supported area of the roof sheeting partial bundle; the sheets bent down and the employee fell 21 feet to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized with a broken arm and tailbone.

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