# Fractures at Dunlap Industrial Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076930` · 7/29/2016 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## 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:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Dunlap Industrial Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1728 3rd Ave. North, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35203
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the fourth rung of an extension ladder painting an interior wall when he slipped and fell off the ladder to the concrete floor, breaking a vertebra in his back.

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