# Fractures at Austin Industrial Services, LP
> OSHA SIR `2023054762` · 5/30/2023 · DECATUR, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple back regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Industrial Services, LP
- **Location:** ADM Co-Generation Plant, DECATUR, ILLINOIS, 62521
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to access a dust collector on a silo. As the injured employee handed paperwork to another employee standing on the platform, the injured employee lost their footing and fell 13.5 feet. They sustained a laceration to the back of the head, compression fractures to T-12, L-1 and possibly L-2 vertebrae as well as left ankle and thigh pain.

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