# Fractures at US-EcoLogic
> OSHA SIR `2022119857` · 11/9/2022 · HUTCHINS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** US-EcoLogic
- **Location:** 1537 Woodbrook Drive, HUTCHINS, TEXAS, 75141
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had completed a duct leakage test in an attic. While they were descending the attic access ladder from the attic platform, the frame of the ladder detached and collapsed under him, causing him to fall to the floor below. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae of the lower back.

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