# Fractures at Brightview Landscaping Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021108927` · 10/16/2021 · VENICE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brightview Landscaping Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 19215 Tantino Drive, VENICE, FLORIDA, 34293
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hedge trimmer, working from the third rung of a 6-foot A-frame ladder. He fell from the ladder, and the hedge trimmer's blades cut and fractured his left little finger.

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