# Fractures at Long Island Concrete Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087313` · 8/3/2020 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Long Island Concrete Inc.
- **Location:** 250 Fulton Street, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10007
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a portable extension ladder to get onto a scaffold platform. The ladder fell away, and he fell to the floor about 11 feet below and suffered broken vertebrae.

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