# Fractures at Chacho's Lease Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025021295` · 2/10/2025 · ALICE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Chacho's Lease Service, Inc
- **Location:** 2099 FM 665, ALICE, TEXAS, 78333
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a limb off a tree while standing on a ladder. The limb broke and hit the ladder, causing the employee to fall about 6 or 7 feet to the ground. The employee suffered seven broken ribs.

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