# Fractures at American D 2009
> OSHA SIR `2025021173` · 2/5/2025 · WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** American D 2009
- **Location:** 809 S Flager Drive, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33401
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling a scaffold when a clamp caught the employee's glove and pulled them down. The employee fell 14 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to their L1 and L2 vertebrae.

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