# Bruises, contusions at Allied Services Skilled Nursing Center
> OSHA SIR `2017054666` · 5/23/2017 · SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Bruises, contusions
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping, unspecified
- **Source:** Hills
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Services Skilled Nursing Center
- **Location:** 303 Smallacombe Drive, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18508
- **NAICS:** 623110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was outside pulling a trash cart down a hill to the dumpster when he fell backwards and hit his head on the pavement, suffering a head contusion and a possible brain hemorrhage.

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