# Fractures at Southland Insulators of Delaware, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015051785` · 5/20/2015 · LEWES, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Plastic wrap
## Employer
- **Name:** Southland Insulators of Delaware, LLC
- **Location:** Lot 6, Beach Plum Dunes, Bldg D, Crossbow Drive, LEWES, DELAWARE, 19958
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking on stilts (raised up about 3 feet), installing batt insulation in the ceiling (about 8-feet high) with a manual staple hammer. The stilts caught a piece of plastic insulation bundle wrapping, causing the employee to lose his balance on the stilts. He tipped forward on the stilts, striking the floor with his knees. His coworkers offered to help him back up, but they couldn't move him. He was hospitalized with a fractured spine.

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