# Fractures at Taco Palenque
> OSHA SIR `2015085905` · 8/19/2015 · LAREDO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Taco Palenque
- **Location:** 1908 Aduanales, LAREDO, TEXAS, 78040
- **NAICS:** 722211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a 20-foot extension ladder to adjust boxes he had flung to the top of the wall when the ladder slipped. Both the ladder and employee fell down. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis.

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