Incident date: 2020-05-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was trimming an overhead limb off a felled tree when the tree branch fell and struck the employee. The employee suffered three fractured ribs, a collapsed lung, and a T-12 vertebrae fracture.

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