# Fractures at Otis Elevator Company
> OSHA SIR `2025087740` · 8/6/2025 · ELLENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **2 hospitalizations**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Elevators
- **Secondary source:** Elevator shafts
## Employer
- **Name:** Otis Elevator Company
- **Location:** 5942 Factory Shops Blvd, ELLENTON, FLORIDA, 34222
- **NAICS:** 333921
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing components of an elevator from inside the elevator and removed temporary hoisting equipment when the elevator descended from the fourth floor to the pit floor. One employee was hospitalized with fractures to their fibula and a rib, and the other employee was hospitalized with fractures to both feet.

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