# Fractures at Jen-Mar Electric Service Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2019088444` · 8/15/2019 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Angle irons
## Employer
- **Name:** Jen-Mar Electric Service Corp.
- **Location:** 63 Flushing Avenue, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11205
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 10-foot A-frame ladder, cutting steel brackets that held a wooden dock to a cement pier. One of the brackets hit the ladder and the employee fell, suffering a broken wrist.

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