# Fractures at United Rentals   Customer Equipment Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2025054772` · 5/21/2025 · HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Rentals   Customer Equipment Solutions
- **Location:** 2760 Jordan Ln NW, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, 35816
- **NAICS:** 532120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was washing equipment while standing on the second rung of an A-frame ladder. He stepped down, missed the bottom rung, and fell backward to the ground landing on his left side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg.

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