# Fractures at Bartick electric
> OSHA SIR `2024021270` · 2/9/2024 · EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Bartick electric
- **Location:** 16 Terbell Lane, EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK, 11937
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling electrical wire into the attic. While attempting to climb down a portable ladder out of the attic, they fell to the ground below, resulting in two fractured vertebrae in their cervical spine that required hospitalization and surgery.

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