# Fractures at Verizon
> OSHA SIR `2025010210` · 1/7/2025 · BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Verizon
- **Location:** 295 School Street, BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, 02478
- **NAICS:** 517312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing aerial service wires from an extension ladder when he fell 14 feet from the ladder. The employee sustained fractures to his pelvis, right hip, and ribs.

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