# Fractures at Magnum Contracting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021042963` · 4/9/2021 · FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
## 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:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Magnum Contracting, Inc.
- **Location:** 3400 James Way South, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58104
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing an extension ladder with his tools in a bucket. As he reached the top of the ladder and raised the bucket to the third floor, he fell from the ladder onto the decking of the second floor 15 feet below. He suffered a broken vertebra.

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