# Fractures at Miter Masonry Construction
> OSHA SIR `2025054311` · 5/7/2025 · HAMILTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Screws
## Employer
- **Name:** Miter Masonry Construction
- **Location:** 7215 Gateway Ave, HAMILTON, OHIO, 45011
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reconfiguring a scaffold after moving it. The employee screwed walk boards together and went to test it when the screws came out and the boards gave way. He fell 16 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his T11 and T12 vertebrae.

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