# Fractures at Clarke Cooper Painting, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2018054622` · 5/12/2018 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Clarke Cooper Painting, LLC.
- **Location:** 14837 Rain Lilly Drive, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32258
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing painter's tape around a window while standing about 12 feet up on a 24-foot extension ladder. After he finished the installation, he was descending when he slipped and fell about 8 feet onto the sandy ground below, resulting in a micro-fissure fracture on his L-2 vertebra. He was hospitalized.

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