# Fractures at Gulf Power Company
> OSHA SIR `2017032809` · 3/28/2017 · CANTONMENT, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Gulf Power Company
- **Location:** 770 Graham Rd, CANTONMENT, FLORIDA, 32533
- **NAICS:** 221112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting electrical line maintenance and was using the fixed steps of a bucket truck when he fell about 6 feet to the ground, suffering a compression fracture to his upper back. He was hospitalized.

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