# Fractures at Asplundh Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `20161211782` · 12/19/2016 · MANTUA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** Asplundh Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** 3148 Pioneer Trail, MANTUA, OHIO, 44255
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was felling a declining ash tree. When the tree came over, it became hung up on a smaller oak tree, lifting the butt of the ash tree in the air. The butt of the tree then came down on the employee who sustained a broken right fibula.

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