# Fractures at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding
> OSHA SIR `2024098540` · 9/13/2024 · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Fixed ladder or fire escape
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding
- **Location:** 4101 Washington Ave, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, 23607
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee climbed an 18-foot job-made wooden ladder to reach the second level of a ship unit. As he was stepping onto the second level, he fell the full length of the ladder to the floor below, resulting in facial and skull fractures.

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