# Fractures at Performance Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2025021171` · 2/5/2025 · DOUGLASSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  sacral region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Multipurpose ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Construction Company
- **Location:** 120 Philadelphia Pike, DOUGLASSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19518
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was testing a sewage pipe that was 9 feet above ground level when the pipe became over-pressured, causing the test ball to be ejected. The ball struck a portable ladder, which then fell and struck the injured employee's hard hat. The employee fell backward into the eye hook of a metal crate that was 3' x 4' x 2.5' high. He was hospitalized with a fractured sacrum.

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