# Fractures at Valley Crest Landscape Developers
> OSHA SIR `2015096524` · 9/8/2015 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Valley Crest Landscape Developers
- **Location:** 16211 Villarella Dr., TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33602
- **NAICS:** 541320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a 6-foot ladder to trim a tree branch. The branch fell and knocked him to the ground. He broke his leg and fractured his skull.

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