# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Office of the Commissioner of Baseball
> OSHA SIR `2023043236` · 4/12/2023 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury
- **Source:** Balls, pucks
## Employer
- **Name:** Office of the Commissioner of Baseball
- **Location:** 2401 Ontario St, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44115
- **NAICS:** 711211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working as an umpire near second base at a baseball game when they were struck in the head by a baseball thrown from the outfield. The employee sustained a subarachnoid hemorrhage, displaced temporal bone, and nondisplaced fracture of the left zygomatic bone.

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