# Fractures at Sovereign Builders, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088369` · 8/15/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Wooden stakes
## Employer
- **Name:** Sovereign Builders, Inc.
- **Location:** 18002 Park Row Rd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77084
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a fiberglass extension ladder along the side of a building when his foot became caught on a wooden stake protruding from the ground, causing him to fall. When he fell, his other foot became tangled between the first and second rungs of the ladder, and he suffered compound fractures of the right tibia and fibula.

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