Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Name: Skull fracture and intracranial injury at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Start: 8/29/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019089005 · 8/29/2019 · U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Brain
Nature of injury: Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Cause

Event: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
Source: ATV, all terrain vehicle

Employer

Name: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Location: 3300 S. Expressway 77 83, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
NAICS: 922120
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was riding in the cargo bed area of an ATV while completing an exercise when she fell off the ATV and hit her head on the pavement. She was hospitalized with a fracture at the temporal lobe and hemorrhage of the frontal lobe.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown