# Fractures at Thompson Solutions Group
> OSHA SIR `2025043487` · 4/14/2025 · VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Electrical wiring building or machine
## Employer
- **Name:** Thompson Solutions Group
- **Location:** 1230 Stanford Street, VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57069
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an 8-foot stepladder pulling electrical wiring. The wire broke, causing the employee to lose balance and fall to the ground. The employee sustained a broken ankle and compression fractures to their lower back.

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