# Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture at Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2025065465` · 6/9/2025 · BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** 1 Rocket Road, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
- **NAICS:** 336414
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. employee was setting up equipment for a welding operation, working from a ladder leaning against a domed vehicle structure. The ladder became unstable at the base, causing the employee to fall about 6 feet and strike their head on the metal leg of a work platform. The employee suffered a concussion and a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized.

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