# Fractures at Tech Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098516` · 9/5/2017 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** Tech Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 1025 West NASA Blvd, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32901
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee finished a roofing repair patch at a completed installation and was descending from the roof using a permanent ladder when he slipped and fell 12 feet to the ground. He fractured his right foot and was hospitalized.

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