# Fractures at Terracon Consultants
> OSHA SIR `20181112261` · 11/30/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Terracon Consultants
- **Location:** 13035 Kuykendahl Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77090
- **NAICS:** 541380
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was mounting an extension ladder to climb down into a trench when he fell into the trench, breaking a vertebra.

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