Incident date: 2016-04-25
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was cutting down trees for the sawmill.  When he cut down a larger tree, it fell onto a smaller tree that then bowed over. The employee went to cut the smaller tree and it sprung back, hitting his left leg and breaking it below the knee. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate