# Fractures at Windward Building Company
> OSHA SIR `2021010471` · 1/18/2021 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
## Employer
- **Name:** Windward Building Company
- **Location:** 2936 Sarno Rd., MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32935
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 18, 2021, an employee was working on the top of a 5-foot scaffold when the scaffold started to move. The employee fell, landing on a concrete slab and suffering a broken left femur. He was hospitalized.

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