# Fractures at Pettus Plumbing & Piping, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022064869` · 6/6/2022 · GALLIANO, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pettus Plumbing & Piping, Inc.
- **Location:** 16759 Highway 3235, GALLIANO, LOUISIANA, 70354
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing an automated control system while on a 6-foot ladder when he fell from the ladder to the floor below, resulting in a broken wrist and cut to the inside of his mouth.

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