# Fractures at CON-TECH CARPENTRY, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018032065` · 3/1/2018 · DES PERES, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** CON-TECH CARPENTRY, LLC
- **Location:** 11736 Middleview Dr., DES PERES, MISSOURI, 63131
- **NAICS:** 238130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder approximately 3 to 4 feet off the ground, attempting to install a porch ceiling soffit, when the ladder and employee tumbled to the ground. The employee's leg was pinned in a rung of the ladder, fracturing the tibia and fibula. The ladder was placed on loose fill rock at the time of the incident.

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