# Fractures at BELL MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017021787` · 2/24/2017 · PRAIRIEVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BELL MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC
- **Location:** Prairieville, PRAIRIEVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70769
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While working on the air conditioning on a new home construction, an employee fell off an eight-foot ladder suffering a compression fracture of the L1 and L4 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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