# Fractures at ADB Companies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043492` · 4/16/2020 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Existing roof openings, other than skylights
- **Secondary source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ADB Companies, Inc.
- **Location:** 3819 Maple Ave, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75219
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had climbed up a fixed ladder on a roof parapet wall to install conduit when he fell 9 feet through the fixed ladder opening to the roof below. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrate and lacerations to the head .

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