# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Dumont Aircraft Charter, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021833` · 2/27/2023 · NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dumont Aircraft Charter, LLC
- **Location:** 15 Penns Way, NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 19720
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a portable ladder to remove a small panel cover from the exterior of an aircraft. The employee fell approximately 7 feet to the concrete floor below and sustained a skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging. The employee was hospitalized.

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