# Fractures at Technivate, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018055260` · 5/30/2018 · NEWARK, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Technivate, Inc.
- **Location:** 455 Stanton-Christiana Road, NEWARK, DELAWARE, 19713
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an extension ladder that was being held by another employee cutting old wire off a pole. When the line was cut, the wire struck the employee on the ladder causing the employee to fall approximately 14 feet off the ladder. He fell onto a portable toilet and then onto asphalt. The employee sustained a six-inch laceration to the back of the head, broken ribs and fractured vertebrae in his back.

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