# Fractures at Fema Construction, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2022065287` · 6/17/2022 · APOLLO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Stairs, steps, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Fema Construction, LLC.
- **Location:** 5995 Covington Garden Drive, APOLLO BEACH, FLORIDA, 33572
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were working on a three-story steel/concrete staircase, welding and bolting up, doing the metal decking. An employee was picking up a metal sheet when he slipped and fell from the middle staircase landing onto the landing below, a distance of approximately 12 feet. The employee sustained a back fracture and a head fracture. The employee was wearing a harness, but it was not connected at the time of the fall.

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