# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Lamar Advertising of Lafayette
> OSHA SIR `2024098634` · 9/16/2024 · LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
- **Source:** Catwalks
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Lamar Advertising of Lafayette
- **Location:** 100 Block Banks Street, LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, 70506
- **NAICS:** 541613
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of a billboard display on the lower catwalk. The employee loosened the straps that secured the vinyl leading to a pair of butler sections in the front part of the billboard. This action caused four butler sections to slip, and one of them struck the employee. The employee fell off the catwalk, however, the fall was properly arrested. The employee sustained a broken right arm and a laceration to the back of the head.

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