# Fractures at Gulf Coast Insulation
> OSHA SIR `2024010934` · 1/30/2024 · SANTA ROSA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers or barriers
## Employer
- **Name:** Gulf Coast Insulation
- **Location:** 11 Sugar Sands Dr., SANTA ROSA BEACH, FLORIDA, 32459
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaning against guardrails while pulling up an insulation hose to the third floor. The guardrails snapped and the employee fell approximately 26 feet onto the concrete below. The employee suffered fractures to facial bones, vertebrae, wrists, their hip, and both femurs.

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