# Fractures at AEP Central Machine Shop
> OSHA SIR `2018010901` · 1/27/2018 · WINFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Ladders-fixed
## Employer
- **Name:** AEP Central Machine Shop
- **Location:** 1530 Winfield Road, WINFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA, 25213
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee fell approximately 8 feet while descending a scaffold ladder, fracturing the right elbow and L3 vertebra.

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