# Fractures at Airgas USA, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2016065904` · 6/30/2016 · GEISMAR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Airgas USA, LLC.
- **Location:** 34115 E. Hwy 30, GEISMAR, LOUISIANA, 70734
- **NAICS:** 325120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was ratcheting a load on top of a pallet and slipped and fell backwards off the pallet fracturing lumbar vertebrae.

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