# Fractures at Thoroughbred Management Group, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019088023` · 8/5/2019 · SARASOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Porches, balconies, decks, patios
## Employer
- **Name:** Thoroughbred Management Group, LLC
- **Location:** 410 E Royal Flamingo Rd, SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 34236
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to trim a palm tree. Before reaching the top, to tie the ladder to the palm tree, the employee fell backwards off the ladder. He landed on the brick patio 10 feet below and sustained fractured vertebrae in the neck and back and fractured ribs.

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