# Fractures at Blass Residential Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025077185` · 7/23/2025 · LIMA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Blass Residential Services, LLC
- **Location:** 750 Buckeye Road, LIMA, OHIO, 45804
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing tear-off on a commercial roof. The injured employee was cleaning debris off the partially repaired roof when he fell through the roof to the concrete floor 15-16 feet below. He landed on his lower back, resulting in several fractures to his lumbar vertebrae.

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