# Fractures at Two-X Engineers & Constructors
> OSHA SIR `20161110429` · 11/4/2016 · VAN VLECK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
## Employer
- **Name:** Two-X Engineers & Constructors
- **Location:** 7960 TX Hwy. 35N, VAN VLECK, TEXAS, 77482
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going to install bolts onto plates on furnaces located on the third level when he stepped on a piece of metal stair grating that had not been welded down. The grating flipped and the employee fell through the opening to the stair landing 7 feet below, suffering a fractured L1 vertebra.

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