Abstract: At approximately 11:00 a.m. on April 19, 2001, Employee #1, a sheet metal worker and a co worker were installing heating and lighting fixtures in a new building. Employee #1 placed a 14 ft long landscaping ladder, he had found, up against the interior side of the south exterior wall approximately 30 ft from the front of the building. The ladder was footed on a concrete floor and placed against the exterior wall. He climbed up the ladder and was reaching behind himself in order to tighten a clamp on an oil line. The bottom of the ladder slipped out in a northerly direction and Employee #1 held onto the ladder and rode it down. He does not recall how he landed but recalled laying on the floor with his legs pointing in the opposite direction. He was hospitalized with a fractured leg.