# Fractures at BLAKE & PENDLETON, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015075097` · 7/27/2015 · NORCROSS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BLAKE & PENDLETON, INC.
- **Location:** 4550 Buford Highway, NORCROSS, GEORGIA, 30071
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a ladder to access equipment on a mezzanine at a customer site. The ladder slipped out from under him, and he fell and fractured his L2 vertebra in two places.

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