# Fractures at Charter Communications, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015041894` · 4/10/2015 · HAMMOND, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Communications, LLC
- **Location:** 11315 Davis Road, HAMMOND, LOUISIANA, 70403
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to hang a 365' drop from the house to the connector wire. He placed his ladder on the strand and proceeded to climb it. The ladder began to slide sideways; the employee started climbing down but was thrown off the ladder at an elevation of approximately 10 feet. The employee landed in a ditch and suffered a compound fracture of the leg.  The ladder was at an approximately 40-degree angle when the employee was thrown from it.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*