# Fractures at Trade Skills, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017065026` · 6/2/2017 · SANTA ROSA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Trade Skills, LLC.
- **Location:** 284 Yacht Pond Ln, SANTA ROSA BEACH, FLORIDA, 32459
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting the front section of the first floor entryway of a three-story split plan house. He attempted to access the exterior wall between the first and second floor using a 6-foot step ladder on top of a 3:12 pitched metal roof. He slipped and fell about 4 feet from the ladder onto the metal roof, fracturing his right hip and requiring hospitalization.

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