Incident date: 2023-09-13
NAICS industry code: 561730

A crew was tasked with sectionally removing a pin oak tree. An employee was working aloft using an adjacent tree as a rigging point. The employee cut a section of the tree and the rigging point limb on the adjacent tree broke and struck them. They sustained two fractures to the right arm and two broken fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate