# Fractures at Eversource Energy
> OSHA SIR `2025043835` · 4/24/2025 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Eversource Energy
- **Location:** High Street/Oliver Street, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02108
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing down a ladder in a manhole. The ladder shifted, the employee fell to the ground, and their legs got entangled in the rungs of the ladder. He sustained a fractured tibia and fibula.

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