# Fractures at Villnave Construction Services Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021422` · 2/14/2023 · LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Villnave Construction Services Inc.
- **Location:** 2125 Saranac Ave., LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK, 12946
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an 8-foot step ladder installing drywall in an HVAC shaft of a hotel under construction. The ladder kicked out and the employee fell through a duct chase. He was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae and a fractured heel.

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