Incident date: 2022-06-03
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was ascending a spruce tree and positioned his lanyard around two branches. The branches broke and the employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, landing on his side. The employee sustained a fractured wrist and a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate