# Fractures at Scott Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043673` · 4/21/2025 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils
## Employer
- **Name:** Scott Electric Company
- **Location:** 2150 Roswell Dr, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15205
- **NAICS:** 423610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an 8-foot folding ladder to retrieve a 250-foot coil of wrapped wire on a shelf. The employee dropped the wire which struck the ladder, causing the employee to fall from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a right knee fracture, and a rib fracture.

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