# Fractures at Franklin Building Supply, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016076780` · 7/26/2016 · IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Roof surfaces other than roof edge
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Franklin Building Supply, Inc
- **Location:** 442 North Pointe, IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, 83401
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering a pallet of roof shingles to a low-sloped roof using a boom truck with a fork attachment. The pallet of roof shingles slipped off of the forks and crashed through the roof to the interior of the home. The employee was knocked/dragged into the hole along with the pallet. He fell approximately 20 feet to the lower surface and was hospitalized with two broken ribs.

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