Incident date: 2017-09-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee and a coworker were using a bucket truck to remove two trees that had fallen on utility wires. The employee was cutting a tree limb when a piece of the tree fell and struck the employee, knocking him to the ground. He broke his hip and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate