# Fractures at PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING INC
> OSHA SIR `2016032641` · 3/30/2016 · OZARK, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING INC
- **Location:** 3608 STATE HIGHWAY NN, OZARK, MISSOURI, 65721
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At approximately 2:00 p.m., on 3/30/16, an employee was climbing down from a one-story roof using a metal extension ladder. The ladder collapsed, and the employee fell approximately 10 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with two cracked right-side ribs and four cracked vertebrae.

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