# Fractures at Eric Bragg
> OSHA SIR `2015010533` · 1/16/2015 · FOREST, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Eric Bragg
- **Location:** 19859 Hwy 80, FOREST, MISSISSIPPI, 39074
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 12-foot step ladder that was folded and placed on top of an air handler. The top of the ladder was leaning against a wall. As the employee stood on the ladder finishing a wall inside a mechanical room, the ladder slid away from the wall and the employee fell to the ground. The employee suffered a left broken leg above the ankle and a broken right little finger.  The employee was admitted to University Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.

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