Incident date: 2024-06-18
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was in a tree to trim a branch. The employee was tied in with a climbing line at a branch union on the tree. As they were using a hand saw to trim the branch, the saw severed the climbing line and the employee fell from the tree to the asphalt pavement below. The employee was hospitalized for neck/back fractures and a skull fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head, neck, trunk
severity: moderate