# Fractures at Clay Electric Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2016087770` · 8/18/2016 · MELROSE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Clay Electric Cooperative
- **Location:** 22303 NE 35th Ave, MELROSE, FLORIDA, 32666
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an aerial lift bucket pushing a pine tree when he fell from the bucket and was suspended by his harness/lanyard 6 feet from the bucket. He sustained two crushed discs and was hospitalized for surgery.

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