# Fractures at Alabama Construction Experts
> OSHA SIR `2024053846` · 5/2/2024 · VESTAVIA HILLS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Construction Experts
- **Location:** 600 Montgomery Hwy., VESTAVIA HILLS, ALABAMA, 35216
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a scaffold when it collapsed and they fell 12 feet, resulting in fractured vertebrae in their back.

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