Incident date: 2016-02-15
NAICS industry code: 238910

On February 5, 2016, at approximately 11:30am, an employee was delimbing a felled tree on sloped ground using a chainsaw. As the last limb was being cut, the tree began sliding on the snow and the employee's right leg was pinned by the limb resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate