# Fractures at Electric Supply Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020076649` · 7/15/2020 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ceilings
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Electric Supply Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2301 East 60th Street North, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57104
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling wire on the ceiling of a structure under construction. The employee fell through an opening in the ceiling, landing on the concrete floor about 9 feet below and suffering a broken lower-back vertebra.

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