# Fractures at Novinium, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010014` · 1/4/2022 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Confined spaces, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Doors, except garage and vehicle
## Employer
- **Name:** Novinium, Inc.
- **Location:** 3001 Maple Avenue, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75201
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down into a vault when they grabbed onto some doors on the vault and the doors gave way, causing the employee to fall at least 20 feet to the bottom of the vault, which had capped rebar on it. The employee suffered broken ribs and a broken sternum.

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