Incident date: 2018-01-31
NAICS industry code: 113310

On January 31, 2018, an employee was felling an oak tree that became hung up on a rotten tree, which caused the rotten tree to snap, fall, and hit the employee. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for facial fractures, a forehead laceration, broken bones, a lacerated liver and a brachial plexus injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate