# Fractures at Mountain Temp Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019055475` · 5/31/2019 · ASPEN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Mountain Temp Services, LLC
- **Location:** 602 E Hyman Avenue, ASPEN, COLORADO, 81611
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning an elevator shaft pit prior to installation of elevator doors. The employee began descending a step ladder into the elevator shaft pit when the employee fell from the ladder onto a steel pipe at the bottom of the pit, fracturing the right femur. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery. The step ladder legs were not set and locked at the time of the incident.

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