Incident date: 2020-09-24
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was using a chainsaw to trim a tree on the shoulder of the highway. The employee either lost his footing or was hit by a branch and fell from the tree, landing on one side. The chainsaw landed on his other side. He sustained a compound fracture to one leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate