# Fractures at E-Built
> OSHA SIR `2020087965` · 8/21/2020 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** E-Built
- **Location:** 2024 N. 2nd St., PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19122
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on top of an elevator car removing counterweights. The elevator car was being lowered when the coffing hoist holding it up snapped and the elevator car and the employee fell from the 10th floor to the basement. The employee sustained broken bones.

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