# Fractures at Niagara Transformer Corp.
> OSHA SIR `20181111840` · 11/16/2018 · CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Niagara Transformer Corp.
- **Location:** 1747 Dale Rd., CHEEKTOWAGA, NEW YORK, 14225
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on the second or third step of a 6-foot step ladder, guiding a control box door with a pry bar. The pry bar slipped and he lost his balance and fell to the floor, breaking his right upper tibia below the kneecap.

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