# Fractures at AMERICAN CUSTOM GUTTERING, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019054713` · 5/8/2019 · ODESSA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** AMERICAN CUSTOM GUTTERING, INC.
- **Location:** 1824 Cherry Walk road, ODESSA, FLORIDA, 33556
- **NAICS:** 238170
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a downspout from a ladder. The ladder was leaning on the side wall of a two-story house. The employee dropped the downspout and tried to catch it with his foot. The employee lost balance and tried to get his foot on the ladder, but missed the rung. The employee fell 12 - 15 feet from the ladder to the mulch bed resulting in fractures to his left arm, the first two left ribs and left scapula. The employee was hospitalized.

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