# Fractures at LaJoie's Auto Wrecking Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021366` · 2/13/2024 · NORWALK, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** LaJoie's Auto Wrecking Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 40 Meadow Street, NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, 06854
- **NAICS:** 811121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 6-foot step ladder, welding on the back of a large forklift rack. The ladder shifted and he fell backward, landing on the concrete floor about 4 feet below. He suffered a pelvic fracture and was hospitalized.

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