# Fractures at VIMS GENERAL CONSTRUCTIONS, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2020054948` · 5/28/2020 · MELROSE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VIMS GENERAL CONSTRUCTIONS, LLC.
- **Location:** 2398 SE 30th Street, MELROSE, FLORIDA, 32666
- **NAICS:** 238170
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going up a ladder when he slipped and fell 4 feet onto the ground. He sustained a fractured vertebrae disk and was hospitalized.

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