# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at ELITE ROOFING SUPPLY - KS, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024109337` · 10/7/2024 · SHAWNEE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Ground
## Employer
- **Name:** ELITE ROOFING SUPPLY - KS, LLC
- **Location:** 12623 W. 77th Street, SHAWNEE, KANSAS, 66216
- **NAICS:** 423330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading shingles on a roof from a pallet that was raised in place by a boom crane. They fell 15-20 feet from the roof to the grass-covered ground below. The employee sustained fractures to their left radius, L3 vertebra, and pelvis. They also sustained a dislocated left elbow and amnesia.

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