Little League World Series player suffers head injury from bunk bed fall

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania — A 12-year-old participant from Utah, whose workforce is about to play within the Little League World Sequence, needed to endure emergency surgical procedure for a extreme head damage which he suffered when he fell off the highest bunk of a mattress early Monday morning.

Easton Oliverson, who pitches and performs outfield for the Snow Canyon workforce out of Santa Clara, Utah, suffered the top damage when he fell in a dorm positioned in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He then was airlifted to a youngsters’s hospital within the state, the place he stays in intensive care.

“He went via fairly traumatic surgical procedure to get to the place he is at, however the medical doctors are all actually optimistic,” Spencer Beck, Easton Oliverson’s uncle, instructed the Salt Lake Tribune. “All the steps transferring ahead have been good to date.”

Beck instructed the newspaper that Oliverson is within the ICU whereas medical doctors watch for swelling in his mind to lower. Oliverson additionally suffered fractures to his cranium and cheekbone, his household mentioned.

Beck instructed the newspaper that his nephew’s fall wakened one in every of his teammates, who alerted others.

“Had that different participant not been wakened by him falling, he might not have made it,” Beck instructed the newspaper.

The Snow Canyon workforce, representing the Mountain Area, is about to play its first recreation within the Little League World Sequence on Friday at 3 p.m. ET. Oliverson’s father, Jace, is an assistant coach on the workforce.