# Fractures at Mericle Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109688` · 10/13/2016 · PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rain
## Employer
- **Name:** Mericle Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Lot #6, PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18641
- **NAICS:** 531210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An operator slipped and fell off his excavator landing on a drainage pipe. The employee was hospitalized for a lower back fracture.

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