# Fractures at Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
> OSHA SIR `2017010470` · 1/15/2017 · MC MURRAY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
- **Source:** Ceilings
## Employer
- **Name:** Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
- **Location:** 3492 Washington Road, MC MURRAY, PENNSYLVANIA, 15317
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a ladder to the top of the fitting room to fix a broken light cover. When the employee stepped onto the fitting room ceiling, the ceiling tile collapsed causing the employee to fall to the floor and fracture his T2 vertebrae.

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