Incident date: 2024-09-30
NAICS industry code: 926140

An employee was providing support for hurricane relief. He was sawing a tree when one of the tree limbs fell down and struck him. The employee sustained a severe laceration on the forehead and an open fracture of his frontal sinus/skull. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Multiple regions of the head
severity: moderate