# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Propell American, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171111162` · 11/21/2017 · GRANBURY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** Propell American, LLC
- **Location:** 4801 Glen Rose Hwy, GRANBURY, TEXAS, 76048
- **NAICS:** 336413
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to remove a part from a fracking unit using a torque wrench and a socket. The socket broke in half and the employee slipped and fell to the ground, hitting his head. He suffered a small skull fracture and brain bleeding, requiring hospitalization.

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