# Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia at Brian Hayes Residential Contracting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076197` · 7/15/2022 · COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brian Hayes Residential Contracting, Inc.
- **Location:** 2 WEST POINT DRIVE, COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA, 32931
- **NAICS:** 236116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were on top of a 7-foot-1-inch stack of roof trusses. As they moved a truss toward the ground, one side of it slipped, causing one of the employees to fall to the ground. He suffered a fractured T12 vertebra and was paralyzed from the waist down. He was hospitalized.

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