# Fractures at A T & T
> OSHA SIR `2015118354` · 11/6/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Telecommunications and cell phone towers
## Employer
- **Name:** A T & T
- **Location:** 80800 Carousel Lane, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77080
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a ladder on communication strands and began to climb it.  The strand broke, causing him to fall and break three vertebrae in his back. He was hospitalized.

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