# Fractures at Perry Roofing Contractors, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017088045` · 8/21/2017 · LAKE BUTLER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Perry Roofing Contractors, LLC.
- **Location:** 225 NE 1st Street, LAKE BUTLER, FLORIDA, 32054
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was measuring the corner of a roof. When he adjusted his lanyard to get to the other side of the roof, he tripped and fell 21 feet to the ground. He broke his L1 vertebra and was hospitalized.

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