# Fractures at Horizon Carpentry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015097150` · 9/28/2015 · WHEELING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Horizon Carpentry, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Hudson Court, WHEELING, ILLINOIS, 60090
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a pitched roof, clearing off materials, when he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below. He was wearing fall protection at the time, but the shock pack did not deploy, and all of the fall protection fell with him. He fractured his lower back.

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