Incident date: 2018-12-23
NAICS industry code: 113310

An employee was using a chainsaw to cut the top off a tree he had felled. A limb from another tree (weighing about 30 pounds) fell about 30-40 feet and hit him on the back. He suffered four broken ribs and three smaller broken bones near the spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate