# Fractures at American Iron Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015096450` · 9/4/2015 · GILBOA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** American Iron Inc.
- **Location:** Gilboa Dam, GILBOA, NEW YORK, 12076
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were setting a canopy in place using a lull.  The injured employee used a fiberglass extension ladder to climb to the top of the 9'-high canopy to remove a sling. He fell from the ladder and fractured both wrists and two ribs.

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