# Fractures at KMI Construction LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098717` · 9/18/2024 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** KMI Construction LLC
- **Location:** 10201 West Watertown Plank Road, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53226
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down a hydro scaffolding tower to retrieve batteries when he fell approximately 10 feet onto the A-frame outrigger of the scaffold, resulting in three fractured vertebrae.

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