# Fractures at M1 Support Services
> OSHA SIR `20191212845` · 12/14/2019 · FORT RUCKER, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** M1 Support Services
- **Location:** Cairns Army Air Field, FORT RUCKER, ALABAMA, 36362
- **NAICS:** 488190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning an aircraft window when she fell approximately 21 inches off a ladder to the ground, fracturing her L1 vertebra.

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