# Fractures at Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020087989` · 8/23/2020 · PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1801 S. Gulfway Dr, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, 77640
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the working platform of a scaffold at a height of approximately 9 feet doing welding operations. During an alarm, the employee fell from the scaffold's ladder to the ground, resulting in a compound fracture to the lower left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*