# Fractures at Karcher Group Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025088284` · 8/20/2025 · CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Karcher Group Inc
- **Location:** 8231 Beach Road, CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, VIRGINIA, 23336
- **NAICS:** 512199
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

Employees were installing a projector on the ceiling of an auditorium using a scaffold. While the injured employee was getting down from the scaffolding, it became top-heavy and tipped over. The injured employee fell to the floor, landing on his left leg and suffering a broken left fibula and tibia.

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