# Fractures at EMCOR Government Services Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032153` · 3/6/2025 · BETHESDA, MARYLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** EMCOR Government Services Inc.
- **Location:** 4600 Sangamore Road, BETHESDA, MARYLAND, 20816
- **NAICS:** 561210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An electrician was looking for a route in the ceiling to run new conduit when he fell 8 feet from a ladder to the floor and sustained 7 vertebrae fractures and 5 fractured ribs.

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