# Fractures at Marlin Construction
> OSHA SIR `2025043511` · 4/15/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  multiple regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Insulation  fiberglass
## Employer
- **Name:** Marlin Construction
- **Location:** 2707-2725 Chimney Rock Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77056
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing roofing activities on a commercial roof. As the employee walked to the ladder to exit the roof for lunch, they stepped on a piece of insulation that hung over the roof and fell approximately 17 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a wedge compression fracture to the L2 and T12 vertebrae and traumatic rupture of a lumbar intervertebral disc.

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