# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Mediacom Communications LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025055003` · 5/27/2025 · VILLA GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Mediacom Communications LLC
- **Location:** 8 S Walnut St, VILLA GROVE, ILLINOIS, 61956
- **NAICS:** 517110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on an extension ladder working to replace a service line to a customer's home. The existing service line broke, causing him to fall off the ladder. He was hospitalized with a dislocated elbow and fractures in his left wrist requiring surgery.

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