Incident date: 2018-02-05
NAICS industry code: 238990

While on an aerial lift, an employee was removing a tree top using a chain saw when the tree top fell backwards and struck the employee. The force of the contact drove the employee's face into the lip of the aerial lift's bucket. The employee suffered a broken nose and several facial fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trees, logs, limbs, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate