# Fractures at AEP Texas
> OSHA SIR `20231110373` · 11/9/2023 · UVALDE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Utility and telephone poles
## Employer
- **Name:** AEP Texas
- **Location:** 300 Block South High St., UVALDE, TEXAS, 78801
- **NAICS:** 221111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 11/9/2023, an employee on an extension ladder was reconnecting power to a residential meter pole. The wooden pole shifted and caused the employee to fall from the ladder to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right tibia.

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