# Fractures at Resort Recreation Center
> OSHA SIR `2022109364` · 10/25/2022 · GULF SHORES, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Boulders
## Employer
- **Name:** Resort Recreation Center
- **Location:** 3200 Gulf Shores Parkway, GULF SHORES, ALABAMA, 36542
- **NAICS:** 713110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just trimmed the fronds of a palm tree from a portable extension ladder. He fell from the ladder; his back landed on a large landscape rock and his ribs were broken. He was hospitalized.

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