# Fractures at Weston Landscape & Tree Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021877` · 2/23/2018 · WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Weston Landscape & Tree Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 23 Sutton Place, WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02493
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was 5-6 steps up a 12' orchard-style ladder when the ladder shifted on a patch of black ice. The employee lost balance and fell, becoming entangled in the ladder, and struck his head against the pavement during the fall resulting in a skull fracture.

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