# Fractures at Mediacom Communications Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016010308` · 1/13/2016 · WALNUT, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Mediacom Communications Corporation
- **Location:** 506 Ross ST, WALNUT, ILLINOIS, 61376
- **NAICS:** 515210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder that was set up on slushy asphalt.  The ladder slid on the slick asphalt, and the employee suffered a skull fracture.

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