# Fractures at Life Cycle Engineering
> OSHA SIR `2019055132` · 5/21/2019 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** Life Cycle Engineering
- **Location:** Naval Business Center, The Commandant's Building, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19112
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking down the steps between the second and third floor, missed a step and fell. The employee hit his head during the fall down the stairs and again at the bottom of the stairs against the marble baseboard. He briefly lost consciousness while waiting for the paramedics. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured vertebra in his neck and a laceration on his forehead.

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