# Fractures at LOTUS CONSTRUCTION, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171110992` · 11/15/2017 · NAPLES, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** LOTUS CONSTRUCTION, LLC
- **Location:** 920 9th St. South, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34102
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working inside an elevator shaft when the elevator button was pressed, causing the elevator to descend. He was trying to step out of the shaft when the elevator landed on his back, fracturing his vertebra.

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