# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at BWFS Industries LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022053975` · 5/7/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BWFS Industries LLC
- **Location:** 11900 Eastex Freeway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77039
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a ladder setting the spider arm. The tack weld on the left arm broke causing the spider arm to fall toward the employee. The employee fell backward off the ladder and the ladder and spider arm landed on the employee causing a broken hip, a dislocated femur and a fractured left elbow. The employee also sustained possible internal injury.

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