# Fractures at DRS SUSTAINMENT SYSTEMS
> OSHA SIR `2025010614` · 1/19/2025 · WEST PLAINS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck and back
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** DRS SUSTAINMENT SYSTEMS
- **Location:** 1 McDaniel St, WEST PLAINS, MISSOURI, 65775
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting the break room wall while standing on the third step of a 6-foot A-frame ladder. The employee was stepping down from the ladder so he could relocate it to complete more painting. The employee missed a step and fell from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee struck his head/neck on a nearby swivel chair and struck his left hip on the concrete. The employee sustained multiple compression fractures to his spine, including the C7 vertebra, T3-5 vertebrae, and the third and fourth sacral segments. The employee was hospitalized.

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