# Fractures at National Maintenance Contracting Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016031982` · 3/6/2016 · NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** National Maintenance Contracting Corporation
- **Location:** 100 Energy Blvd At 56th St, NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, 14304
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to reach and adjust a chain that was holding up one of the very large bags in the baghouse. The employee crawled on top of the bags, which are held in place by angle irons 11 inches apart. While crawling toward the bag, the employee lost his grip and fell through the 11-inch gap. He fell 37 feet to the ground, breaking a foot and fracturing a vertebra.

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