# Fractures at B&R Painting Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191213042` · 12/19/2019 · DULUTH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** B&R Painting Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** 2915 Premier Parkway, DULUTH, GEORGIA, 30097
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting on a scaffold when he slipped and fell approximately 5 feet from the scaffold to the floor. He was hospitalized with a fracture to the L2 vertebra.

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