# Fractures at Advanced Roofing and Sheet Metal
> OSHA SIR `2025010393` · 1/13/2025 · FORT MYERS, 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:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Constructed surface irregularity
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Roofing and Sheet Metal
- **Location:** 2635 Cortez Blvd, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33901
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a 15-foot flat roof. They went under the flag line and jumped to the next building. The employee fell in the 2-foot gap between the buildings and landed on the gravel ground. The employee sustained a fractured spine.

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