# Fractures at FirstService Residential, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20231110694` · 11/20/2023 · MIAMI, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FirstService Residential, Inc
- **Location:** 2127 Brickell Avenue, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33129
- **NAICS:** 531311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder while hanging holiday lights when they fell to the ground and sustained a severe head laceration as well as two fractures to his lumbar vertebrae.

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