Fractures

An employee was touching up paint along the gable and main floor roofline at a home. When the employee finished painting, he set up a 16-foot extension ladder to reach the upper roofline in order to detach his lifeline. As he stepped off the ladder at the upper roofline, the ladder slipped out from beneath him, causing the employee to fall approximately 15 feet to the driveway below. He sustained a hairline fracture to his left shoulder, a fractured left cheekbone, and a laceration to the back of his head and below his left eye. The employee was hospitalized.