# Fractures at Weifield Group Contracting Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020054262` · 5/7/2020 · BRIGHTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Weifield Group Contracting Inc
- **Location:** 21955 160th Avenue, BRIGHTON, COLORADO, 80603
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an extension ladder at the edge of a high-ceilinged room. The ladder's feet slipped on the floor and it fell; the employee fell with it and landed on the concrete floor, also striking the ladder itself on the way down. The employee suffered a broken right femur, a broken right elbow, and lacerations to both legs, and was hospitalized.

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