# Fractures and other injuries, unspecified at Eilers Steel Erection, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032648` · 3/24/2023 · SCHERTZ, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Existing floor opening
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Eilers Steel Erection, Inc.
- **Location:** 2801 Ashwood rd., SCHERTZ, TEXAS, 78108
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking a break to get water for himself and another co-worker. After retrieving the water bottles and returning to the second floor, the employee went to hand a bottle to their co-worker when they fell 17 feet through a 3-foot-by-5-foot opening onto the concrete floor below. The employee sustained rib fractures, spinal damage, and head lacerations.

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