# Fractures at Fosters Paint & Wall Coverings
> OSHA SIR `2025054677` · 5/19/2025 · HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Elevator shafts
- **Secondary source:** Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Fosters Paint & Wall Coverings
- **Location:** 1500 Park Central Dr, HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO, 80129
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to paint interior doors and doorframes of a commercial building when they opened a door and stepped through, falling approximately 6 feet down an unguarded elevator shaft to concrete flooring, resulting in a fractured wrist and upper right arm.

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