# Fractures at Great Lakes Aerial Maintenance and Construction Company Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017010881` · 1/29/2017 · RICHARDSON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Lakes Aerial Maintenance and Construction Company Inc
- **Location:** 2551 Holford Rd., RICHARDSON, TEXAS, 75082
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about 13' up a cell tower in a spider basket taking steel off of the tower for new reinforcement. The employee fell and sustained lower back fractures. The employee was not tied off at the time.

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