# Fractures at J.S. Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077512` · 7/24/2018 · BEE CAVE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** J.S. Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 14300 Hamilton Pool Road, BEE CAVE, TEXAS, 78738
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 12-foot step ladder getting ready to strap up a flexible conduit on a light fixture. When he grabbed the flexible conduit, he was shocked by ~277 volts and fell off the ladder to the ground, fracturing his L3 vertebra.

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