# Fractures at Genco Masonry Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076362` · 7/20/2022 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
- **Secondary source:** Confined spaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Genco Masonry Inc.
- **Location:** 4000 Wisconsin Ave., WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20016
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was erecting a frame-supported scaffold in a shaft. The employee fell approximately 15 feet and sustained fractures to the lower spine requiring hospitalization.

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