# Intracranial injuries with skull fractures at Qualtex Industries, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025076647` · 7/9/2025 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Intracranial injuries with skull fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Qualtex Industries, Inc
- **Location:** 9449 Silver Creek Rd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76108
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a 6-foot ladder completing touch-up painting when they fell off the ladder and onto the wall and floor, striking the left side of their head above the ear and eye. The employee fractured his skull and had a brain bleed requiring hospitalization.

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