# Fractures at Pop's Industrial Coating
> OSHA SIR `2025010343` · 1/10/2025 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Piers, wharfs, water docks
- **Secondary source:** Fall protection equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Pop's Industrial Coating
- **Location:** 3515 Airport Road, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33811
- **NAICS:** 332813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was on top of a 10-foot sectional barge in the sandblasting yard. They were prying up a "snapping bar" and fell from the barge to the dirt/sand ground below. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

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