# Fractures at Jamestown Roofing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021098218` · 9/23/2021 · KENNEDY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Jamestown Roofing, Inc.
- **Location:** 3470 Cemetery St, KENNEDY, NEW YORK, 14747
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was climbing down a ladder from the second roof level to the first roof level. The base of the ladder slipped, causing the employee to fall to the first-level roof. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae in their back.

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