# Fractures at Frontier Communications
> OSHA SIR `20190910071` · 9/26/2019 · CROSBY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Frontier Communications
- **Location:** 1318 Indian Shore Rd., CROSBY, TEXAS, 77532
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Four employees were working on cable pairs, doing aerial work. One of them was 20 feet up on a ladder that was leaning on a strand. The strand gave way and the employee fell with the ladder, suffering a closed fracture of a lower-back vertebra.

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