# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at AMERICAN AIRLINES
> OSHA SIR `2020055015` · 5/30/2020 · DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Airplane-jet or turbine engine
- **Secondary source:** Airport runways
## Employer
- **Name:** AMERICAN AIRLINES
- **Location:** 2400 Aviation Drive, DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS, 75261
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a last-minute bag into the cargo bin of an aircraft. The belt loader that was normally used was pulled away, so the employee jumped from the ground to the cargo bin. The employee fell from the cargo bin and struck the back of his head on the concrete, suffering a traumatic brain injury, temporal skull fracture, and subarachnoid and subdural bleeding.

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