# Fractures at Evelyn Baird Gentry Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024109470` · 10/10/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Evelyn Baird Gentry Corporation
- **Location:** Baylor Project in Houston, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77030
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An electrician was working from a 10-foot ladder, reaching up to place an I-beam and conduit. He fell backward from the ladder, landing 8 feet below on the concrete floor and suffering a closed displaced transverse fracture of the shaft of his left radius.

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