# Fractures at Mediacom Communications Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021032528` · 3/25/2021 · HERRIN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mediacom Communications Corporation
- **Location:** 205 W Mack St, HERRIN, ILLINOIS, 62948
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder working a customer's service line on a utility pole by the road. The utility pole broke causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to the L2, L3, and L4 vertebrae, as well as whiplash.

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