# Fractures at Buckingham Properties
> OSHA SIR `2020109306` · 10/1/2020 · ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Pelvis
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Buckingham Properties
- **Location:** 801 West Avenue, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14611
- **NAICS:** 531190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing 4' fluorescent light bulbs using a 6' A-frame ladder. As the employee descended the ladder, he slipped from the third rung and fell to the tile floor. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured pelvis.

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