# Fractures at Affordable Tree & Landscape, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022098366` · 9/21/2022 · SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Sacral region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Affordable Tree & Landscape, Inc.
- **Location:** 15 Poinciana Cove Road, SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, 32086
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 21, 2022, an employee got off an aerial lift and onto the roof of a two-story house to blow off leaves using gas-powered leaf blower. The employee slipped, grabbed onto the gutter, and then fell approximately 28-30 feet onto a flower bed, resulting in a fractured sacrum and a laceration to his chin. The employee was hospitalized.

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