# Fractures at J.S. Wagner Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109504` · 10/3/2017 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** J.S. Wagner Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 900 Maine Avenue, SW, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20024
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking a measurement and had one foot on a portable step ladder and one foot on a wall when he slipped and fell 9 feet over the wall. He broke six vertebrae.

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