# Fractures at Jim Radell Construction
> OSHA SIR `2017054177` · 5/8/2017 · PITTSBURG, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Jim Radell Construction
- **Location:** 1200 West 4th Street, PITTSBURG, KANSAS, 66762
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder cutting I-beams. He cut one beam and a piece fell and hit the bottom of the ladder causing the ladder to kick out. The employee lost balance and fell resulting in two broken bones in his left wrist and a broken nose.

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