# Fractures at Roto-Rooter Services Company
> OSHA SIR `20181010678` · 10/16/2018 · WESTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Roto-Rooter Services Company
- **Location:** 16703 SW 5th Court, WESTON, FLORIDA, 33326
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting an inspection in a single family home's attic when he fell approximately 12 feet to the ground below, fracturing one of his middle vertebrae.

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