# Fractures at Wellspan Health
> OSHA SIR `2017010191` · 1/7/2017 · LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** Wellspan Health
- **Location:** 4th and Walnut Streets, LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA, 17042
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing building maintenance. As he was climbing a fixed ladder on the outside of the building, he slipped off the ladder and fell 10 feet to the concrete below, fracturing his T12 vertebra.

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