# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Arrow Exterminators
> OSHA SIR `2024087024` · 8/1/2024 · PONTE VEDRA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Rodents
## Employer
- **Name:** Arrow Exterminators
- **Location:** 24490 Deer Trace Drive, PONTE VEDRA, FLORIDA, 32082
- **NAICS:** 561710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a multiform ladder as an extension ladder at the first floor gutter line of a residence performing a squirrel exclusion. While measuring a void that needed material, a squirrel ran out of the void, up his arm, and onto his chest. The employee lost his grip and fell from the ladder to the sand below, sustaining a fractured tailbone, internal bleeding, and a hematoma.

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