# Fractures at Con-Tech Insulation, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087984` · 8/28/2024 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Con-Tech Insulation, LLC
- **Location:** The Marshall, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63108
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 28, 2024, an employee was installing insulation on the fifth floor of the site. They fell through an opening for a trash chute that had not been installed. The employee landed on the second floor and sustained fractures to their arm and ribs.

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