# Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions at Nelkin Real Estate & Capital, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032115` · 3/7/2023 · BUFORD, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelkin Real Estate & Capital, LLC
- **Location:** 4550 Atwater Ct, BUFORD, GEORGIA, 30518
- **NAICS:** 531210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was patching sheet rock holes inside of a unit while on an 8-foot, A-frame ladder. The employee fell from the ladder and sustained a concussion and three compression fractures of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.

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