# Fractures at National Distribution Centers LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010530` · 1/17/2017 · DESOTO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Electrical wiring-building
## Employer
- **Name:** National Distribution Centers LLC
- **Location:** 501 W. Danieldale Road, DESOTO, TEXAS, 75115
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder tying off electrical wire on the ceiling when he suffered an electrical shock. He blacked out and fell off the ladder, hitting his head, twisting his ankle, and fracturing and contusing his back.

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