# Fractures at Billy Barnes Enterprises, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087401` · 8/3/2017 · MEXIA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Billy Barnes Enterprises, Inc.
- **Location:** Rocky Creek Lumber, MEXIA, ALABAMA, 36458
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While climbing a ladder to fix the tarp on a chip trailer, an employee fell onto a catwalk below. The employee suffered a head laceration, L1 vertebra fracture, and cracked and bruised ribs.

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