# Fractures at Charter Communications, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019043465` · 4/3/2019 · WORTHINGTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Communications, LLC
- **Location:** 1042 Proprietors Road, WORTHINGTON, OHIO, 43085
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A cable installer at a residential single family home hooked his ladder over a metal strand line, climbed up the ladder and hooked up his fall protection to the strand line and began diagnostics on the communications line. A splice on the strand line failed resulting in the ladder and the employee falling 18 feet to the concrete driveway below. The employee sustained fractures to the elbow and pelvis.

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