# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Morale Welfare & Recreation
> OSHA SIR `2023043837` · 4/29/2023 · PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Morale Welfare & Recreation
- **Location:** 47382 Keane Rd, PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND, 20670
- **NAICS:** 713940
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving a basketball that was stuck on a ledge, when they fell 10 or 11 feet from a ladder and landed on the hardwood floor of the basketball court. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion, lacerations to the head, and a possible skull fracture.

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