# Fractures at Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016032201` · 3/13/2016 · MARINETTE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 805 Ogden Street, MARINETTE, WISCONSIN, 54143
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 13, 2016, an employee was putting a belt (48" wide by 17' long) on the screener.  The employee was on a ladder three rungs up. When he attempted to pull on the belt, the ladder went out from underneath him and he fell to the floor. He suffered a compression fracture to his lumbar vertebra.

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