# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Vitro Architectural Glass
> OSHA SIR `2020054785` · 5/22/2020 · WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vitro Architectural Glass
- **Location:** 7400 Central East Frwy, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 76305
- **NAICS:** 327211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking near a steel platform performing maintenance when the wire ropes holding the platform snapped, causing the platform to strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a slight fracture to the spine.

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