# Sprains, strains, minor tears at Victory Fire Protection, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076465` · 7/16/2024 · POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Sprains, strains, minor tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Victory Fire Protection, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Pennbrook Parkway, POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19464
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on a roof truss while looking for a leak in a fire suppression system when the truss collapsed and the employee fell approximately 12 to 13 feet. The employee sustained scrapes and abrasions to the front left area of their upper rib cage and strains to their back and neck.

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