# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Monette Cooperative Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109803` · 10/24/2023 · MONETTE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Parking lot, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Monette Cooperative Inc.
- **Location:** 210 SE Main Street, MONETTE, ARKANSAS, 72447
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping onto a semi-trailer flatbed when he lost his grip and fell approximately 3 feet to the gravel parking lot. The employee sustained fractures to the temporal region of the skull as well as brain hemorrhaging.

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