# Fractures at Hinkle Roofing Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086636` · 8/7/2021 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rain
## Employer
- **Name:** Hinkle Roofing Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 1446 Montgomery Highway, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35216
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking a roof to make sure it was covered and dried in before it started to rain. He slipped on the way to a ladder and fell off the roof, breaking bones in his leg.

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