# Fractures at E2 Optics LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065846` · 6/26/2017 · GREELEY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** E2 Optics LLC
- **Location:** 917 7th street, GREELEY, COLORADO, 80631
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an extension ladder (approximately 8 feet up) testing a phone port on the ceiling when the ladder slipped out from under him and he fell to the ground, breaking his vertebrae and crushing a disc in his lower back. He was hospitalized.

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