Incident date: 2016-12-19
NAICS industry code: 221122

On December 19, 2016, at approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee was working from an elevated bucket truck to top a tree when the tree top broke away, causing the attached guy-rope to pin the employee against the bucket under the weight of the tree top. He suffered broken ribs and broken vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate