# Fractures at Clark's Family Roofing
> OSHA SIR `2025054983` · 5/27/2025 · VANDALIA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Roof surface
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Clark's Family Roofing
- **Location:** 604 North 7th St, VANDALIA, ILLINOIS, 62471
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been laying felt on a roof. He stepped backward and fell off the edge of the roof, landing on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured discs in his lower back.

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