# Fractures at VT Halter Marine
> OSHA SIR `20211210752` · 12/15/2021 · PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** VT Halter Marine
- **Location:** 900 Bayou Cassotte, PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, 39581
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was coming out of a manhole onto some scaffold decking. The employee lost his footing, fell backward off the platform, and landed upright on both feet, resulting in fractures to two lower vertebrae.

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