Incident date: 2020-02-20
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was working aloft in a locust tree with his tie-in point high in the middle of the tree. He had worked his way out on a branch to make the needed cuts and was walking back in toward the main trunk when he slipped and swung back into the trunk. He struck his foot, causing a break in both bones of his lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate