# Fractures at Casto Technical Services
> OSHA SIR `2024075896` · 7/1/2024 · CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Casto Technical Services
- **Location:** 500 Donally Street, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 25301
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unbending a hose to clean the coils on an HVAC unit when he fell 45 feet from the roof to the ground below. The employee sustained fractures to lumbar vertebrae and an ankle.

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