# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries at American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065829` · 6/28/2024 · KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 4237 MOUNTAIN LAUREL LANE, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, 34746
- **NAICS:** 236116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was accessing a roof and was getting off a ladder to unload shingles that had been placed on the roof with a boom. He slipped and fell from the second-story roof, landing on a wooden pallet on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his mandible and elbow, facial abrasions, a concussion, and a collapsed lung.

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