# Fractures at Solarcity Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015129644` · 12/21/2015 · SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
- **Source:** Roofs, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Solarcity Corporation
- **Location:** 1125 Pleasant Street, SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK, 12303
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was the last person on the roof after installing solar panels and wiring and had removed his fall protection equipment handing it to a coworker.  The coworker went down the ladder to the ground and held the ladder.  When the injured employee went to descend the ladder, he slid and a strap securing the ladder to the roof broke. He fell over 20 feet from the roof to a concrete surface below resulting in compound fractures to his left arm.

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