# Fractures at Top Notch Turf and Pest
> OSHA SIR `2022108714` · 10/3/2022 · CYPRESS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ceilings
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Top Notch Turf and Pest
- **Location:** 13710 Oak Harbor Bend, CYPRESS, TEXAS, 77429
- **NAICS:** 561710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 3, 2022, at approximately 12:30 p.m., an employee was using a backpack sprayer to spray the attic of a customer's home when he stepped off the decking and fell through the ceiling to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae.

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