# Fractures at BrandSafway Services Spokane
> OSHA SIR `2024076050` · 7/5/2024 · LEWISTON, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Catwalks
## Employer
- **Name:** BrandSafway Services Spokane
- **Location:** 803 Mill Rd., LEWISTON, IDAHO, 83501
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was on a team that was dismantling a scaffold. He was descending a scaffold ladder when the ladder bent backward and he fell. The employee struck a structural beam and then continued to fall to catwalk grating 36 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures.

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