# Fractures at Prospera Housing Community Services
> OSHA SIR `2024109796` · 10/21/2024 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  multiple regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Prospera Housing Community Services
- **Location:** 1806 ClubviewAvenue, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78741
- **NAICS:** 531311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an extension ladder to treat rust on an I-beam. The employee lost balance and fell approximately 18 feet from the third story to the concrete floor, striking the second floor on the way down. He sustained fractures to his L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae and a coccyx fracture.

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