# Fractures at Printpack, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010632` · 1/20/2015 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Tarps and sheeting-nonmetal, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Printpack, Inc.
- **Location:** 210 Kansas City Avenue, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71107
- **NAICS:** 322220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping the truck driver load equipment onto a flatbed truck. They were covering the equipment with a tarp. The tarp began to slip, causing the employee to lose balance and fall onto the concrete platform 4 feet below the flatbed surface. The employee was taken to Willis Knighton North Medical Center and admitted. The employee suffered a compression fracture to the L-1 Vertebrae.

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