# Fractures at Middle Creek Roofing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043136` · 4/2/2018 · RICHLAND, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Middle Creek Roofing LLC
- **Location:** 10 Popular Street, RICHLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, 17087
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to access the ladder jack scaffolding when the employee either tripped or slipped when stepping on the plank and fell. The employee suffered chipped vertebrae in the back.

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