# Fractures at Windstream Nebraska, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024054308` · 5/15/2024 · UNION, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Windstream Nebraska, Inc
- **Location:** 2250 E Lake Drive, UNION, NEBRASKA, 68455
- **NAICS:** 517311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was completing an installation of fiber optic service at a customer's residence. He was connecting a temporary aerial drop to a permanent buried install. The employee had climbed approximately 6-8 feet up a 24-foot extension ladder positioned on the middle of a pole when the ladder rolled causing him to fall. The employee sustained fractures to his clavicle, right wrist, and ribs.

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