# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Townsend Tree Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015085762` · 8/13/2015 · MEADOW BRIDGE, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Tree Service, LLC
- **Location:** Lawn Road, MEADOW BRIDGE, WEST VIRGINIA, 25976
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed a tree and tied off during tree trimming activities. The employee cut a limb, which fell and broke the limb he was tied off onto. He fell approximately 40 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, a blood spot on the brain, and fractured bones around his right ear. He was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*