# Fractures at Amerect Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077550` · 7/31/2025 · WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Catwalks
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters structurally attached
## Employer
- **Name:** Amerect Inc.
- **Location:** 1300 11th Street Southeast, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57201
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transitioning from a catwalk to an extension ladder. They grabbed an in-process guardrail which gave way causing them to fall approximately 15 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractures to the skull and spine.

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