# Fractures at LeafGuard Holdings, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076195` · 7/10/2024 · NORWICH, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  multiple regions
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** LeafGuard Holdings, Inc.
- **Location:** 15 Brookside Dr., NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, 06360
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been installing a gutter downspout. The employee was descending a 20-foot extension ladder when they fell to the ground. They sustained fractures to their T12 and L1 vertebrae.

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