# Fractures at Liberty Lutheran Housing and Development Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023109828` · 10/24/2023 · STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Windows, openings
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Liberty Lutheran Housing and Development Corporation
- **Location:** 260 Lions Hill Road, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16803
- **NAICS:** 623311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been cleaning windows inside an apartment. He went to step out onto a brick ledge to clean the exterior of the windows and lost balance. He fell from the third floor ledge to the patio/grass below and landed on his feet. The employee sustained vertebral compression fractures.

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