# Fractures at Jacobson & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085451` · 8/5/2015 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Jacobson & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 7th Avenue, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10011
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a ladder after loading a high ceiling when he fell from the third rung to the floor, fracturing his vertebrae.

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