# Fractures at MERO Construction, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087188` · 8/7/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
- **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:** MERO Construction, LLC
- **Location:** 10110 West Sam Houston Pkwy. (Wisenbaker), HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77064
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a scaffold approximately 15 feet high to nail sheet rock to an interior wall. The employee fell backward and the scaffold collapsed. The employee was hospitalized with a shattered right shin and ankle and required surgery.

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