# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2016021396` · 2/15/2016 · BUCKHANNON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
- **Source:** Limbs, branches-unattached
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** Route 20, BUCKHANNON, WEST VIRGINIA, 26201
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 5, 2016, at approximately 11:30am, an employee was delimbing a felled tree on sloped ground using a chainsaw. As the last limb was being cut, the tree began sliding on the snow and the employee's right leg was pinned by the limb resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula and hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*