# Fractures at Pieper Electric Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043830` · 4/24/2025 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Pieper Electric Inc.
- **Location:** 25 S Pontiac Drive, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53545
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an 8-foot step ladder using a "fish stick" to pull cable for a fire alarm at a school. He was on the sixth rung when he fell to the floor. He was hospitalized with fractures to his back and hip.

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