# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at St. Francis Hospital South
> OSHA SIR `2016076824` · 7/26/2016 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** St. Francis Hospital South
- **Location:** 10501 E. 91st Street South, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74133
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing a light ballast when he fell approximately 6 feet from his ladder to the ground below, suffering a skull fracture, brain bleeding, two broken ribs, a spinal fracture, and amnesia.

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