# Fractures at PruittHealth Construction Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018077169` · 7/16/2018 · VALDOSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** PruittHealth Construction Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1501 North Lee St, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, 31602
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was 8 feet up a 10-foot A-frame ladder. As he began to climb down, he lost his footing and fell to the floor, sustaining a lumbar fracture. He was hospitalized.

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