# Fractures at H & S CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016010514` · 1/19/2016 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** H & S CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
- **Location:** Nueces Blvd, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78409
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a scaffold when the scaffold came apart.  The employee fell 12-15 feet to the ground resulting in a upper left thigh laceration and a compression fracture to the T10 vertebra.

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