# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Reliant Test and Technology
> OSHA SIR `2019021806` · 2/18/2019 · EGLIN AFB, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Pickup truck
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Reliant Test and Technology
- **Location:** 516 Perimeter Rd., Bldg. 963, EGLIN AFB, FLORIDA, 32542
- **NAICS:** 561210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An electronic maintenance technician noticed that part of the tarp covering a radar dome had come off. He was standing on the bed of his pickup truck, pulling a rope attached to the tarp, when he fell off and landed on his back on the asphalt pavement. He suffered a skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging and was hospitalized.

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