# Fractures at VMC Contracting Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024087821` · 8/23/2024 · WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** VMC Contracting Inc
- **Location:** Ingenuity Prep Public Charter School, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 20032
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spray painting and fell approximately 12 feet from an extension ladder to the concrete landing below, resulting in a broken tibia and fibula in their left leg and a soft tissue injury in their right leg.

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