# Fractures at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
> OSHA SIR `2025065355` · 6/5/2025 · LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
- **Location:** 200 W Orange Street, LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA, 17543
- **NAICS:** 813110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a ladder, changing banners on a wall. The ladder slid backward and gave out and the employee fell, landing on the on the flagstone floor about 13 to 15 feet below. He was hospitalized with a broken elbow and wrist, and he required surgery.

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