# Fractures at Meadow Wood Painting LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023043338` · 4/14/2023 · SPOKANE VALLEY, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Roof edges
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Meadow Wood Painting LLC
- **Location:** 17011 E Sprague Avenue, SPOKANE VALLEY, WASHINGTON, 99037
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was touching up paint along the gable and main floor roofline at a home. When the employee finished painting, he set up a 16-foot extension ladder to reach the upper roofline in order to detach his lifeline. As he stepped off the ladder at the upper roofline, the ladder slipped out from beneath him, causing the employee to fall approximately 15 feet to the driveway below. He sustained a hairline fracture to his left shoulder, a fractured left cheekbone, and a laceration to the back of his head and below his left eye. The employee was hospitalized.

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