# Fractures at FitzGerald Contractors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087976` · 8/28/2024 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Ceilings
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** FitzGerald Contractors, LLC
- **Location:** 10609 Gold Coast Court, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71115
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an attic to evaluate the material required to reinstall a plumbing vent in a garage. The employee fell through the ceiling and landed 8 feet below on the concrete floor of the garage. The employee sustained a compression fracture to their L1 vertebra.

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