# Intracranial injuries, unspecified at Vortex Industries
> OSHA SIR `2020076185` · 7/2/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Garage doors
## Employer
- **Name:** Vortex Industries
- **Location:** 15121 Gulf Fwy, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77034
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a garage door from an A-frame ladder when a motion detector sensor was engaged, causing the door to start to come down. The door struck the employee's head, causing him to fall off the ladder and hit his head on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with injury to his head.

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