# Fractures at Charter Communications, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022119962` · 11/12/2022 · WARSAW, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Communications, LLC
- **Location:** 42829 US 36, WARSAW, OHIO, 43844
- **NAICS:** 515210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from an extension ladder in a back yard, disconnecting an aerial telecommunications cable line from a house. The employee fell backward from the ladder to the grass below, suffering fractured vertebrae in their back.

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