# Fractures at Ruiz-Boyter Construction & Supplies
> OSHA SIR `2025077361` · 7/28/2025 · ABILENE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ruiz-Boyter Construction & Supplies
- **Location:** 615 FM 2404, ABILENE, TEXAS, 79601
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 10-foot ladder, working to insulate 24-inch piping that was 12 feet above the ground. The pipe jack/steel tube used to raise the pipe slipped, causing the steel tube to strike the employee's face. The impact caused the employee to fall off the ladder and sustain fractures to their left tibia and fibula.

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