Incident date: 2022-10-27
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was pruning a tree in the back yard of a residential home. The ropes securing him to the tree were cut, and he fell from the tree to the ground 17 below. He suffered a broken little finger and a back injury and was hospitalized.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate