# Fractures at Inter IKEA Systems B.V.
> OSHA SIR `2016054261` · 5/16/2016 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Electrical wiring-building
## Employer
- **Name:** Inter IKEA Systems B.V.
- **Location:** 2001 Park Manor Boulevard, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15205
- **NAICS:** 452111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to install a TV monitor. He was working from an 8-foot ladder and using a voltage tester to evaluate wiring to power the monitor when he made contact with a live electrical wire and fell off the ladder. He hit his head, cracked his vertebra and rib, and suffered a laceration that required stitches.

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