# Fractures at THE BOEING COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2025054832` · 5/22/2025 · KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the chest
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ducts  any material
- **Secondary source:** Other structural elements  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** THE BOEING COMPANY
- **Location:** K6-0894 Tow Way Road, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, 32899
- **NAICS:** 336411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking in the breezeway outside the orbital processing facility when a vent hood on two wooden supports tipped over onto them. The employee was trapped underneath the vent hood, resulting in hospitalization for fractures to their rib and sternum.

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