# Fractures at Johnstown Wire Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2015118355` · 11/6/2015 · JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Johnstown Wire Technologies
- **Location:** 124 Laurel Ave, JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 15906
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a crane that was out of service. He went and got a ladder and put the ladder on the spreader bar of the crane. He climbed about 8 to 10 feet up the ladder when it slipped out from under him. He fell and broke his right shoulder.

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