# Fractures at Mid-State Roofing and Coating, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025055006` · 5/27/2025 · UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Mid-State Roofing and Coating, Inc.
- **Location:** Thompson Hall, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, 16802
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending the side of a scaffold when a rail detached from the scaffold and the employee fell 38 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis, fractured lumbar vertebra(e), and lacerations.

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