# Fractures at The Oscar W. Larson Company
> OSHA SIR `2025055137` · 5/30/2025 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** The Oscar W. Larson Company
- **Location:** 1420 NW 23rd Ave., FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33311
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to hang/support a pipe running vertically through a ceiling for a plumbing vent. A section of plywood had been laid perpendicularly across several ceiling joists to provide access to the work area. The employee was positioning himself to work a channel strut into place to support the pipe when he fell 9 feet from the ceiling trusses to the concrete floor. He sustained fractures to lumbar vertebrae and was hospitalized. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

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