# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Airco Mechanical, Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2020032313` · 3/11/2020 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Airco Mechanical, Ltd.
- **Location:** 828 West 6th street, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78703
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a metal, fixed ladder. He was opening the roof hatch to go onto the roof when he fell about 12-14 feet to the floor, hitting a sink faucet and the ladder on the way down. The employee was hospitalized with multiple rib fractures on the left side, a fractured scapula, and a bruised lung.

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