# Fractures at Penn Foster
> OSHA SIR `2016109807` · 10/18/2016 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Penn Foster
- **Location:** 925 Oak Street, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18515
- **NAICS:** 611710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing electrical work from a 6-foot ladder. He was coming down the ladder when it slipped and he fell with it. He suffered a broken right tibia and fractured two other bones in his foot/ankle, requiring hospitalization.

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