# Fractures at Performance Contractors Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032001` · 3/1/2025 · PORT SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving, racks
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contractors Inc.
- **Location:** 20200 LA Highway 23 South, PORT SULPHUR, LOUISIANA, 70083
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking back from the tool room through the scaffolding material storage area. The employee's pant leg got caught on one of the 8-foot long scaffold planks that was in a scaffold rack. The employee tripped on the scaffold plank and fell forward, landing on his left elbow. The employee sustained a compound fracture to his left arm above the elbow and was hospitalized.

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