# Fractures at Ampco Sandblasting & Painting LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065565` · 6/15/2020 · SHEFFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ampco Sandblasting & Painting LLC
- **Location:** 5200 Oster Rd, SHEFFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, 44054
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a portable ladder to access the second level of the roof from the first level. The bottom of the ladder slid out, causing the employee to fall to the first level. He suffered fractured vertebrae.

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