# Intracranial injuries with skull fractures at ResCare Community Living - Newton, Kansas
> OSHA SIR `2024075908` · 7/2/2024 · NEWTON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Event or exposure  unspecified
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ResCare Community Living - Newton, Kansas
- **Location:** 700 East 14th Street, NEWTON, KANSAS, 67114
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a client into their home from the van which was parked on a steep slope driveway. They were found in the client's driveway unconscious. The client was strapped into their wheelchair which was found on top of the employee. The employee sustained a fracture behind her ear, a hematoma on the right side of her scalp, and a subarachnoid hemorrhage. She was hospitalized.

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