# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Professional Traffic Control
> OSHA SIR `2019043799` · 4/12/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, roadway
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Professional Traffic Control
- **Location:** 288 South/Beltway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77047
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Several employees were riding in a flatbed truck. The truck had to swerve to avoid a barrel in the road and an employee fell out onto the street. The employee suffered a laceration to the right ear, a broken bone in the right ear area, and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized.

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