# Fractures at Specialty Tank Service
> OSHA SIR `2019054619` · 5/6/2019 · SEABROOK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Specialty Tank Service
- **Location:** 1166 Port Road, SEABROOK, TEXAS, 77586
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling an engineered scaffold and fell approximately 57 feet. The employee was hospitalized for compound fractures to his legs and ankles and two fractured ribs.

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