# Fractures at Port Manatee Ship Repair
> OSHA SIR `2024098392` · 9/10/2024 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Port Manatee Ship Repair
- **Location:** 1006 N 19th St., TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33605
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting the top of a shipping container from inside a lift basket on a forklift. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to the concrete surface and sustained a fractured pelvis and a fractured L5 vertebra.

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