# Fractures at Demara Masonry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010878` · 1/29/2017 · ALYS BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
## Employer
- **Name:** Demara Masonry, Inc.
- **Location:** Lot U30 Sugar Loaf Alley, ALYS BEACH, FLORIDA, 32461
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was erecting the second tier of a masonry scaffold when he fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below breaking the L1, L4 and L5 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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