# Fractures at Santimaw Contracting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054376` · 5/9/2025 · WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Santimaw Contracting, Inc.
- **Location:** 50 Outlook Rd., WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01602
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting boards near the edge of the first floor of an apartment building that had lost its roof, and many of its walls, to a fire. He stepped onto a ladder and it toppled over the side of the building and he fell with the ladder. He suffered fractures to a lower-back vertebra and both heels.

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