Flight attendant reported severe injury attributed to pilot not giving weather/turbulence briefing.

Attributes
ACN	1617919
Time
Date	201805
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Flight Attendant (On Duty)
Experience	Flight Attendant Airline Total 4 Flight Attendant Number Of Acft Qualified On 1 Flight Attendant Total 31
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Pilot in command provided no weather or turbulence briefing to crew. Expected route of flight was through and over extensive thunderstorm cells. No pilot preflight weather briefing was provided; no turbulence announcement was made before; during or after event per SOP requirements. This resulted in severe flight attendant injury requiring surgery.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight Attendant reported severe injury attributed to pilot not giving weather/turbulence briefing.

Narrative: Pilot in Command provided no weather or turbulence briefing to crew. Expected route of flight was through and over extensive thunderstorm cells. No pilot preflight weather briefing was provided; no turbulence announcement was made before; during or after event per SOP requirements. This resulted in severe flight attendant injury requiring surgery.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.