# Fractures at Arctic Air Home Services
> OSHA SIR `2024032115` · 3/7/2024 · PALMETTO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Rocks, stone, gravel
## Employer
- **Name:** Arctic Air Home Services
- **Location:** 2216 7th St. W, PALMETTO, FLORIDA, 34221
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending an aluminum extension ladder with tools when he tripped and fell approximately eight feet to the ground, landing on rocks and a garden bed. He fractured two ribs and one vertebra.

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