# Intracranial injuries with skull fractures at Personal Touch by J R Rivas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021393` · 2/12/2025 · DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Ceilings
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Personal Touch by J R Rivas, Inc.
- **Location:** 1374 Jefferson Road, DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA, 36732
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 12, 2025, an employee was installing blocking in an attic space to repair a sagging sheetrock ceiling. The employee misstepped and fell through the sheetrock 10 feet and 5 inches to the ground below. The employee landed on his head and was hospitalized with a fractured skull and brain bleeding.

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