# Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture at The Pennsylvania State University
> OSHA SIR `2024054260` · 5/14/2024 · UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** The Pennsylvania State University
- **Location:** Old Main Building (University Park Campus), UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, 16802
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was painting from a baker's scaffold 55 inches above the floor. The employee fell off the scaffold decking onto the floor and was hospitalized for fractured ribs, a fractured thumb, and a brain bleed.

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