Incident date: 2015-08-13
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee climbed a tree and tied off during tree trimming activities. The employee cut a limb, which fell and broke the limb he was tied off onto. He fell approximately 40 feet to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, a blood spot on the brain, and fractured bones around his right ear. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate