OLATHE, KANSAS—
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Skull fracture and intracranial injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Academy Sports + Outdoors, 14405 West 135th Street, OLATHE, KANSAS 66062 on — Skull fracture and intracranial injury, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was on a 10-foot ladder retrieving product from a shelf, when he fell and struck his head on the concrete floor. The employee suffered a fractured skull and an intracranial hemorrhage.
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