# Fractures at Clean Air Quality Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087613` · 8/9/2017 · PELHAM, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Ducts
## Employer
- **Name:** Clean Air Quality Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 575 Colonial Ave., PELHAM, NEW YORK, 10803
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were standing on 10-foot ladders while removing an old air duct when a segment of the duct separated and struck the ladders. The employee fell to the ground and broke ribs on the right side.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*