# Fractures at Rio Verde Framing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020076881` · 7/21/2020 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers
## Employer
- **Name:** Rio Verde Framing LLC
- **Location:** 6200 Watkins Avenue, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72764
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been conducting framing work. The employee was laying plywood to a window opening and was leaning against the guardrail. The guardrail gave way and he fell from the third floor. He struck a beam on the second floor and landed between two concrete platforms in the grass. The employee sustained multiple injuries including a compressed fracture with retropulsion at the L2 vertebra, a pelvic fracture, and a non-displaced sacral alar fracture.

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