# Fractures at Sunshine Solar Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2017076234` · 7/7/2017 · EAST QUOGUE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunshine Solar Technologies
- **Location:** 5 Fox Hollow Drive, EAST QUOGUE, NEW YORK, 11942
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder servicing a solar heating unit when the ladder buckled and the employee fell approximately 10 to 12 feet to the ground, fracturing the L2 vertebra.

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