Incident date: 2025-08-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was helping to hold a rope that was tied around a pine tree where dead branches were being removed. As a branch was removed, the tree swung, causing the employee holding onto the rope to swing, slide across the grass, and strike the bumper of a nearby truck. The employee sustained a lower leg fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate