# Fractures at Case & Associates Properties, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021093` · 2/3/2023 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Case & Associates Properties, Inc.
- **Location:** 7805 S. Union Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74132
- **NAICS:** 531110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing an extension ladder, set against a light pole, to change a light bulb that was 12 to 15 feet above the ground. The ladder fell to the ground and the employee landed on it, suffering two broken ribs and an injury to a lower back vertebra. He was hospitalized.

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