# Fractures at Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022021216` · 2/9/2022 · COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Lamp posts, street lights
## Employer
- **Name:** Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3700 E. 68th Ave, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO, 80022
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a semi-trailer helping load fiberglass street light poles. The employee fell off the semi-trailer's flatbed when a 35' street light pole weighing approximately 50 lbs. came loose and fell toward the employee. The employee sustained multiple fractures to his pelvis and ribs and was hospitalized.

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