Incident date: 2018-12-10
NAICS industry code: 922140

An employee was part of a work crew that was conducting logging operations. The employee was cutting down a tree. When he had completed the cut and the tree started falling, a branch broke off and fell onto the employee causing a fractured vertebrae. He was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate