# Fractures at Paramedics Plus, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043731` · 4/18/2018 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thoracic region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Playground equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Paramedics Plus, LLC
- **Location:** 2851 N McMullent Booth Rd, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33761
- **NAICS:** 621910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was undergoing SWAT paramedic training. He was on the monkey bars when he swung his feet up, slipped and fell about 7 feet off of the monkey bars, and landed on his head. He fractured his D6 and D7 vertebrae, requiring surgery.

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