# Fractures at Reitnouer, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015086279` · 8/31/2015 · BIRDSBORO, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Reitnouer, Inc.
- **Location:** 5 E Pointe Drive, BIRDSBORO, PENNSYLVANIA, 19508
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee needed to access a trailer to untangle a strap. While climbing a 4-foot ladder he lost his balance and fell to the floor, breaking a vertebra in his back.

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