# Fractures at Progressive Plumbing, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020109939` · 10/19/2020 · KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Progressive Plumbing, LLC
- **Location:** 3156 North Orange Blossom Trail, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, 34741
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an A-frame ladder marking locations for brackets to hold plumbing pipes in the ceiling and wall. The employee was about 8 feet high on the 12-foot ladder when he lost his balance while reaching to mark a location for a bracket and fell from the ladder onto the floor. The employee injured his face, eyes, shoulders and sustained a broken right femur.

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