Incident date: 2019-05-01
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee had been topping a dead tree while tied into an adjacent buckeye tree. When the employee had finished topping and was descending the tree, the top of the buckeye tree broke and the employee fell about 33 feet to the ground sustaining multiple fractured ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate