Incident date: 2016-03-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was ascending a tree. At 20 feet, he wrapped his climbing lanyard around a limb. When he put his weight on it, the limb broke, and he fell 20 feet, hitting a branch on the way down. He suffered forward shift vertebrae injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Herniated discs
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate