# Fractures at Performance Painting Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055156` · 5/21/2019 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Painting Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** 855 St. Johns Bluff Road N, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32235
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing up a 24-foot extension ladder to paint the top portion of a building when the ladder slid backwards, causing him to fall on the concrete floor. He suffered fractured ribs and a fractured skull, as well as a broken back.

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