# Fractures at DR Roof, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098991` · 9/26/2024 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## 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:** Roofs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** DR Roof, Inc.
- **Location:** 14149 River Station Lane, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32218
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing roofing work such as installing shingles. He fell from the second-story section of a town home and landed on the ground sustaining a compression fracture in his back. The employee was wearing fall protection at the time of the fall.

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