# Fractures at McAlvain Construction Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024021682` · 2/23/2024 · BOISE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** McAlvain Construction Inc
- **Location:** 120 N 12th Street, BOISE, IDAHO, 83702
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up scrap wood on the 27th floor and picked up a piece that was covering a hole. When the employee walked forward, he fell through the hole approximately 12 feet landing on the 26th floor. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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