# Fractures at Bayes Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017087926` · 8/17/2017 · HOLLAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Bayes Incorporated
- **Location:** 1530 Timberwolf Dr., HOLLAND, OHIO, 43528
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 17, 2017, an employee was on a step ladder helping to remove a sanitary sewer pipe in a ceiling when the employee fell approximately 4 feet off the step ladder, suffering cracked back vertebrae and requiring hospitalization.

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