# Fractures at Hamilton College
> OSHA SIR `2025087729` · 8/5/2025 · CLINTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hamilton College
- **Location:** 198 College Hill Road, CLINTON, NEW YORK, 13323
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance on an obstacle course. He was securing the bottom section of a two-part extension ladder to a tree by screwing bolts into the tree. He began ascending the ladder again with a blue strap to secure the ladder to the tree when the ladder began sliding on the tree and he fell approximately 8 feet to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to a rib on the left side, his sacrum, and three parts of his pelvis, as well as abrasions.

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