# Fractures at Armstrong World Industries, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2021109290` · 10/28/2021 · MARIETTA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Strapping
## Employer
- **Name:** Armstrong World Industries, Incorporated
- **Location:** 1507 River Road, MARIETTA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17547
- **NAICS:** 327420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on top of a wooden skid, bending over and pulling up on plastic straps wrapped around a bundle of cardboard (so that a forklift could slide its forks under the bundle. The straps snapped and the employee fell backward onto the concrete floor. He suffered a compression fracture to a lower-back vertebra.

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