# Fractures at Coates Roofing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010928` · 1/29/2018 · ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Coates Roofing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1140 S. Plainview Road, ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, 73401
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down a ladder when the bottom of the ladder shifted. The ladder and the employee fell, landing on his back and breaking his vertebra.

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