# Fractures at Metro Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021010809` · 1/29/2021 · EDINBURG, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Metro Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 N. Closner Blvd., EDINBURG, TEXAS, 78539
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 29, 2021, at approximately 3:00 PM, an employee was spray painting a conduit pipe while on an A-frame ladder. He fell from the fifth rung of the ladder to the concrete floor and sustained a fractured right ankle.

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