# Fractures and other injuries, unspecified at Twin Oaks Construction
> OSHA SIR `2022021349` · 2/11/2022 · GILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Twin Oaks Construction
- **Location:** 278 Edgewater Dr, GILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03249
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder inside a house attaching strapping to the exterior door frame. The employee stepped on a guard rail and the rail came loose causing the employee to fall 11 feet from the ladder out of the opening and land in a frozen snow bank. The employee struck his head on the frozen ground and suffered head trauma and fractured vertebrae.

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