# Fractures at Aqua Plumbing & Air Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065753` · 6/17/2025 · SARASOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground
## Employer
- **Name:** Aqua Plumbing & Air Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 8283 Vico Ct., SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 34240
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 4-foot A-frame ladder. The ladder twisted on the soft dirt it was standing on, and the employee fell to the ground, landing on his left side. He suffered broken ribs and was hospitalized.

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