# Fractures at Maine Solar Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2024076900` · 7/30/2024 · KINGFIELD, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Maine Solar Solutions
- **Location:** 836 Tufts Pond Road, KINGFIELD, MAINE, 04947
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While working on a roof, an employee switched from one anchor to another, leaned back, and the standing seam anchor was ripped from the seam. The employee fell 20 feet from the roof to a gravel driveway and sustained a broken back.

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