# Fractures at Fire Safety Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241211496` · 12/12/2024 · LEWISBURG, WEST VIRGINIA
## 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:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Fire Safety Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 200 Sonoma Lane, LEWISBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, 24901
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing sprinkler heads from a 10-foot A-frame ladder, working from the step below the top of the ladder. The employee was finishing the installation of the last sprinkler head when the ladder shifted as they reached overhead. They fell approximately 9 feet to the concrete floor, resulting in fractures to their left arm, wrist, tailbone, and back.

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