Incident date: 2024-03-14
NAICS industry code: 115310

An employee was limbing/bucking a horizontal tree from across the trail. A bound branch struck the employee's face once the cut was complete. The employee sustained multiple fractures, contusions, cuts, and lacerations to the face and head. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple regions of the head
severity: moderate