# Fractures at Maguire Iron Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025076885` · 7/16/2025 · ELLINWOOD, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and hip joint(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Maguire Iron Inc
- **Location:** 710 N. Kennedy Ave, ELLINWOOD, KANSAS, 67526
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance work on the inside of a water tower. While climbing out of the tank using a rope ladder, he lost his footing and fell approximately 20 feet to the bottom of the tank. The employee was hospitalized with a contusion to the back of his head and a fracture to his hip/pelvic area. The employee was wearing fall protection equipment but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.

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