# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at RHP Staffing Company
> OSHA SIR `2016099187` · 9/29/2016 · QUEENSBURY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** RHP Staffing Company
- **Location:** Forest Park, QUEENSBURY, NEW YORK, 12804
- **NAICS:** 531390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder about 8-10 feet up cutting tree branches when a tree branch fell and hit the ladder, causing it to tip. The employee fell to the ground and landed on his back fracturing five ribs, the pelvis and bruising a lung.

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