# Intracranial injuries with skull fractures at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health - US
> OSHA SIR `2024010046` · 1/3/2024 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health - US
- **Location:** 5701 Providence Hill Rd, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64503
- **NAICS:** 325411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually stacking empty totes on a pallet. The employee stood on a pallet and as they went to get off, their foot got caught in an opening in the pallet. This caused the employee's knee to hit the concrete floor and their head to strike the fork of a nearby electric pallet jack. The employee suffered a broken tibia in the left leg, a 9-centimeter laceration across the forehead, fractures to the bone around the right frontal lobe and right eye socket, 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*