# Intracranial injuries, unspecified at Monsey Premier Painters Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023065813` · 6/29/2023 · MONROE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
- **Source:** Extension ladders
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
## Employer
- **Name:** Monsey Premier Painters Inc.
- **Location:** 17 Meron Dr, MONROE, NEW YORK, 10950
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a co-worker put a 16-foot extension ladder on top of a baker scaffold to paint on a wall in a foyer approximately two stories high. As the employee was standing on top of the ladder, it shook the scaffold and the ladder then toppled over, causing the employee to fall head first onto the tiled floor and sustain a head injury.

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