# Fractures at Orlando Diefenderfer Electrical Contractors
> OSHA SIR `2022053941` · 5/6/2022 · CENTER VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Screwdrivers-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Orlando Diefenderfer Electrical Contractors
- **Location:** 3200 Sierra Circle, CENTER VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, 18034
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on the sixth rung of a 8-foot A-frame ladder installing a tech screw into drywall using a battery operated screw gun. The screw wobbled and fell over causing the employee to lose his grip on the screw gun. While trying to catch the screw gun, he lost his balance and fell off the ladder. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a laceration to the back of the head that required staples, and a sprained left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

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