# Fractures at Arby Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109628` · 10/7/2017 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Arby Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 967 Peachtree Parkway, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30041
- **NAICS:** 212321
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a digger near a 14-foot hole to replace a steel concrete pole. He was exiting the back of the machine using the ladder when he fell into the hole, fracturing his L2 lumbar vertebra and requiring hospitalization.

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