# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Newton Welding Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077130` · 7/15/2019 · HUTCHINS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof trusses, joists
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Newton Welding Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1301 Cleveland Rd, HUTCHINS, TEXAS, 75141
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing steel decking to the roof a warehouse while standing on a roof truss. The employee lost his footing and fell. He was wearing personal fall protection which included a full body harness, a D-ring extension, a retractable lanyard, and a beam anchor clamp. After falling approximately 21 feet, the retractable device caught and stopped his fall but then the D-ring extension s threading failed and it broke. The employee then free-fell approximately 27 feet to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with injuries including: the right knee shattered into twenty pieces, the right leg fractured in three places, fractures to the front of the skull/forehead, a broken nose, five teeth knocked out, and numerous facial lacerations.

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