# Fractures at Charter Communications
> OSHA SIR `2023054611` · 5/24/2023 · CANDOR, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Communications
- **Location:** 37 Stowell Ave, CANDOR, NEW YORK, 13743
- **NAICS:** 517911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder repairing a service drop from a pole to the customer's home. The employee cut the wire at the mid-span, causing the wire to release tension. The employee fell from their ladder onto the paved roadway below and sustained head/facial abrasions as well as an L1 vertebral fracture.

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