# Fractures at Lighthouse Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015063711` · 6/16/2015 · MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Lighthouse Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 42 8th Street, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, 26505
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the third step of an eight foot step ladder pulling a cable through a conduit with a fish tape. The fish tape popped off the cable and the employee fell off the ladder and struck the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and chipped vertebrae.

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