# Fractures at Doyon Drilling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032703` · 3/19/2018 · PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Doyon Drilling, Inc.
- **Location:** Rig 15, PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA, 99734
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was exiting a rock crusher and getting onto a 6-foot step ladder. He was holding onto the handrail while getting his feet onto the ladder. His feet were on the second rung from the top when the ladder kicked out from underneath him. He held onto the handrail momentarily and then fell 4 to 5 feet to the ground (gravel pad), breaking his left wrist and suffering a small compression fracture in his lower back. He was hospitalized.

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