# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Scott Lee Guttering
> OSHA SIR `2020021920` · 2/27/2020 · FENTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Street, road, driveway-paved
## Employer
- **Name:** Scott Lee Guttering
- **Location:** 473 Timber Valley Trail, FENTON, MISSOURI, 63026
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing gutters on a newly constructed residential dwelling. The employee was climbing a portable extension ladder to install a downspout over the garage and fell approximately 10 feet head-first onto the concrete driveway. The employee sustained a skull fracture, swelling of the brain, eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung and was hospitalized.

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