# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Treesmiths, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021228` · 2/8/2017 · DIMOCK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Trees, logs, limbs, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Treesmiths, Inc.
- **Location:** Route 29, DIMOCK, PENNSYLVANIA, 18816
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 8, 2017, employees were using a rope to pull over an ash tree stump. As the stump was falling, it hit a 40-foot dead scotch pine, causing it to break off and strike an employee's head. He was hospitalized with back and rib injuries.

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